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I'd suggest that it may more of a case that you are conveniently under analysing it to fit your own political and social narrative.
The 'average Joe' is hacked off because the BBC are in a left wing bubble ?
Silent majority, average Joe, the working man always seems to be free from the influences of bubbles/echo chambers and in particular 'the lefty' bubbles in these common narratives.
Your average voter did not vote for Trump, he lost the public vote and won only by the electoral colleges.
How does that fit your narrative of the average Joe/voter ?
The Brexit vote was close enough to 50/50 to reasonably state that the nation was split down the middle with just a slight majority voting Leave over Remain.
How does that fit your narrative of the average Joe/voter ?
Clearly it doesn't fit if you actually analyse it all, but far better to keep it simple and don't think about it too much as that way we can blame any opposing views on a minority of elitist lefty liberals and the BBC.
You fail to account for not only the bubbles that everyone else, including the right are in, but also ignore the effects, interactions and consequencies of partisan and ideological organisations, sites, media etc on the general public and social media.
While only a minority of people subscribe to or read extreme left or right wing publications or sites, their influence and effects can be felt throughout the whole of society to lesser and greater extents.
Most people in the US or even the UK don't or wouldn't subscribe to or support Britian First.
However, their videos, memes and other propaganda doesn't remain in their own little bubble.
Material and often disguised propaganda often makes it's way out into the mainstream, especially through social media ... and the prime example of this is the current sharing of Britian First videos by Donald Trump to his 44 million twitter followers.
That is just a prominant example of things that are happening all the time, every day across social media and the news.
While many people are intelligent enough to see it for what it is, there is still a significant number of people who fall for it or at the very least effected by having their biases confirmed and exagerated.
This to me is a case in point with the BBC. The right wing along with the likes of Russia via RT have continually maligned the BBC implying bias, fake news, lefty liberal agendas etc etc.
That gets into the public consciousness, especially for those predisposed by political and ideological positions to find some content disagreeable.
Now we have got to the point where there is significant enough numbers of people regurgitating those views that it has become perceived as legitimet and valid criticism, even though it is totally out of perspective and context with how the BBC fairs against the likes of say Fox News or even most other news and media outlets.
Just like water takes the path of least resistance, we as humans tend to prefer to dismiss things that challenge our preconcieved ideas about ourselves and the world.
It's much more comfortable and simple to dismiss the BBC as lefty liberal bias than for example to actually question and evaluate whether we might have been a little ignorant of prejudice or issues around race when we were younger.
PC gone mad and liberal elitist agendas rather than maybe we were wrong albeit it innocently of calling the shop on the corner of the street the '**** Shop'. |
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Author: raduv1
26-11-2019 00:08:37
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