A friend of mine at work is on the center-left of the spectrum. He's a brilliant person and a politics junkie. He's by no means a woke crazy. I often ask him about news media bias and if he noticed a difference between how the media treated Obama and how it treated Trump. He always says that it's true that most of the coverage on Trump is awful... But that is because most of Trump does is awful.
So I asked him to check by himself a few things that have been blatantly manipulated by the media. Today he calls me and tells me that he listened to the entirety of what Trump said about the Charlottesville incident ("There were fine people on both sides"). After listening to the whole thing, he told me that what Trump said was not as bad as he thought, and that he had never heard the whole thing before.
It really made my day.
So I asked him to check by himself a few things that have been blatantly manipulated by the media. Today he calls me and tells me that he listened to the entirety of what Trump said about the Charlottesville incident ("There were fine people on both sides"). After listening to the whole thing, he told me that what Trump said was not as bad as he thought, and that he had never heard the whole thing before.
It really made my day.