My MIL is this kind of extrovert. She assumes that if someone isn’t constantly talking to her that they hate her.

Look lady: I love your daughter to death! I love you to death! I DON’T HAVE ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MY LIFE!! And you KNOW that!! Trust me, when I do, I WILL LET YOU KNOW!! In the meantime, business as usual and I don’t have any opinions on anything outside of my purview!

I swear, if ever she was forced to sit in front of a group of people in silence, her head might explode.

I find it important to call out any media bias no matter how “tepid” you may find it.

It’s the deluge of “tepid” examples of bias that makes us complacent when what you might consider “real bias” comes up and goes unnoticed and/or unquestioned.

To all of the “neutral” folks:

Wouldn’t “neutral” mean you could swap headlines and photos and still have the same emotional response (because that is the aim of propaganda, to illicit an emotional response)?

I don’t think this would garner the same response if it was switched.

It is subtle propaganda (apparently), but biased propaganda none the less.

Not necessarily. One snip gives an example of a positive quality of the person in question paired with a positive leaning photo. The other gives no such example of quality (and in fact uses authoritarian language as a way of swaying opinion) paired with a photo doctored to (at least in my mind) resemble historically negative figureheads.

This is a form of bias and propaganda.

Exactly! Additionally, the visual cues that are obviously being used paint a very different picture.

Propaganda isn’t really difficult. It just requires a predisposed audience.

Having been the one who brought it up, (and since I got here first) I guess I will super duper reluctantly be the enforcer. I super don’t want to y’all guys! But this is for the good of the collective!