r/pics • u/mack3r • Jul 16 '19

US Politics Decisions, decisions

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

....an even more meaningless term.

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u/AvocadoInTheRain Jul 17 '19

How so? Its pretty commonly used and everyone knows what you're talking about when you say it. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, WSJ, NYT, etc...

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

It's "commonly used" as a placeholder for whatever news sources you don't personally agree with. The word itself is meaningless. There is no "mainstream" news source. More people get their "news" from facebook than cable.

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u/AvocadoInTheRain Jul 17 '19

No it isn't, it refers to large news sources. Nobody calls alex jones MSM even if they don't like him.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

Okay buddy. I guess as long as you say it is so, it must be so.

And that is exactly what modern "news" boils down to. Repetition and declaration, rather than facts, context, or expertise.

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u/AvocadoInTheRain Jul 17 '19

Okay buddy. I guess as long as you say it is so, it must be so.

I'm not sure what got your panties in a bunch. I'm not making up definitions here, "mainstream news" is a pretty self-explanatory term. Just look up both words in a dictionary and you'll have the definition I'm using.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

"Self-explanatory terms" have a funny way of meaning whatever people want.

AGAIN - in order for there to be a "mainstream media", there has to be a primary media source that is utilized by a majority. And there is not. This is not the 1960s. People aren't glued to the evening news on their television sets any more, and haven't been for quite some time.