• Furbag@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Kinda. MTG is ragging on Fox News, sure, but she’s also both-sides’ing media outlets on the left with her full quote:

      We have propaganda news on our side just as the left does

      She’s fishing for people to agree with her which legitimizes her claim that left-leaning news networks are just as untrustworthy as Fox News, which is and untrustworthy news outlet, but she doesn’t say shit about Breitbart or OANN or any of the other right-wing superspreaders of misinformation.

      So, she is a broken clock that’s currently pointing at the correct time, but she did it in a way to sneak in an untruth or two in there hoping that people would pick up on that and amplify the message.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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        23 minutes ago

        Putting the new York times and fox news in the same category is correct as far as I can tell. I don’t oppose her calling NYT republican either.

      • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 hours ago

        I have not looked at the American mainstream press for a few months, but honestly cannot remember any broadcasters or papers who are decently covering all news

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        3 hours ago

        Look, fuck this racist asshole Marjory. But liberal news sources are also largely garbage. The NYT, for example (well respected by liberals) is constantly giving voice to reactionaries, lying by omission, supporting US imperialism and just generally upholding the status quo, even when it means normalizing/legitimizing fresh horrors from republicans.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      I prefer “stopped clock,” since broken clocks can often continue ticking, albeit at the wrong speed.

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        3 hours ago

        A broken clock, whether it ticks too fast or too slow, is still right at least once every 24 hours, I think.

        The only exception would be one that ticks correctly but is not set to the right time (does this count as broken?)

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          2 hours ago

          If it ticks faster than time than it would be right more than once (24hr time) a day, the faster it ticks the more times it will incidentally be correct (perhaps there is an allegory here…)

          A clock that ticks slower than time would be right less than once a day, but it can never…

          I feel like I need a simulator to understand this relationship actually…

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            39 minutes ago

            I was thinking of analog 12hr clock with no distinction between AM and PM

            I wonder if your 24hr clock example would be more intuitive as frequencies and phases?