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CNN, I guess. They're pretty middle of the road in terms of content.

The problem is that these same people are liars pushing an agenda. They don't care about the truth. I don't believe that they actually believe their own bullshit. Some of them might, but not many. The ones that do are used by the liars to further solidify their own propaganda. They are useful idiots.

Besides, I'm pretty sure that most people on mainstream media and our politicians are just different shades of right wing corporate whores. There is no real left that is spoken of in this context. There are no real left wing voices in prominent roles or on prominent media. When it seems there is someone on the "left" distorting the right's view it's just someone slightly left of that right wing view so it seems like it's left, but the entire spectrum is just moving further right. It's like when people call Democrats "the left". Most of them are moderate to center right leaning corporate whores.

Everyone they really try to silence or attack or enact policies against are really left wing.

It's all right wing corporate private industry authoritarian imperialism. It's just a useful illusion they employ to make it seem otherwise.

One of the ways Russia is accused of election meddling is amplifying the voices of both extremes to drown out the middle. By polarizing the discussion between extremes, compromise and sanity go out the window. Only the fanatics vote (due to poor choices coming out of the primaries) and extremests get elected to do extreme things, and non extremists (the majority) don't believe they have representation and lose faith in democracy.

Seems to be working.

Somewhere else.

I watch Fareed Zakaria on CNN Sundays at noon EST. It's honest, smart, intelligent, and balanced. It is smart people from all over the world conversing, not yelling at each other. PBS is also grown up news and opinion.

not all televised news is equal. i prefer news analysis by educated people to talking-head tv news.

i have no idea were centrists gravitate. i have never been a centrist.

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The powers that be want us divided. It's classic Machiavellian politics. Much easier to keep dry raping a divided and bickering population.

I tend to gravitate towards doing what's right, despite political party. I see them as two sides of the same coin, and both sides are marred beyond recognition, so...

This seems odd to me because from a European point of view American politics is all about the middle ground - the Republicans and Democrats both seem very centrist to us.