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Can anyone provide examples of mainstream American media allowing anyone from the extreme left to present their views in a fair way?

Asked by gorillapaws (30562points) August 14th, 2018

I often hear that the press has a left bias. It’s easy to find examples of very extreme right wingers being given the opportunity to present their ideology in a fair manner in the mainstream media—this happens all of the time. I can’t think of a single example of the equivalent happening on the extreme left.

To be clear, I’m defining the extreme left as Government controlling the ENTIRE economy (that’s food, sneaker manufacturing, convenience stores, flimmaking, video game coding, sports, media—literally everything in the economy). To further clarify, “so-called-radicals” like Berine Sanders are very far to the right of this position, they believe in a mixed economy similar to Scandinavian countries, with most of the economy owned by public and private companies/small business, and certain basics (heathcare, education, etc.) guaranteed by the state.

It is my belief that the extreme left (i.e. the ones who think Bernie is way too conservative) is not ever represented in the mainstream media, if they are, it’s always framed in a negative way. The extreme right however are often given a voice in the mainstream media. If you disagree with this, I’d be interested to see examples disproving my hypothesis.

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