This latest conspiracy theory is one of the dumbest yet. If such emails exist, they obviously weren't created to evade detection, as one would - with burner phones, secret servers etc. - if acting nefariously. Because then they *wouldn't be included in the National Archives!*
I mean, the right-wing rant is "this MUST be where Biden hid his corrupt dealings and ran the global crime operation through Hunter!"
And then he included it all in his official papers?
@RationalLeft They know they're full of shit. Part of why they say things like that is so we'll have an apoplexy, and it clearly works. We fall for it every time.
@AskTheDevil Actually, their chief goal is to goad the wider media into treating their conspiracy theories as legitimate.
In recent years, they've usually failed, but not always.
@RationalLeft I think they've succeeded quite enough to do damage. And the fact that most "news" media has profit as their mission, not "news" makes it easier and easier all the time.
Outrage and upset makes people look at articles, and that sells ads.
So why not have some Bozo on claiming that Hurricanes are because Jesus hates Ellen DeGeneres, or that climate change is fake. Or that it's called "climate change" instead of global warming.
@RationalLeft Most of the time, that paper that reports the news with the slant that you like, whether left or right, isn't doing it because they are with you. They're doing it because that is the branded demographic they sell to advertisers.
When you look at who actually owns stake and stock in both "left" and "right" leaning news sources, it's often the same people.
CNN isn't liberal for instance. They just market to them. They practically _created_ President Trump.
@AskTheDevil There isn't and never has been a "liberal media." There is openly right-wing media. The rest plays games for attention and profits... though quality journalism sometimes makes it through. (Once upon a time even Fox occasionally did real work. Not in recent years, though.)
@AskTheDevil I sympathize. I look at news sites more to see what line is being pushed to the voters than for information as such (though there are often exceptions when quality stories get through).
Who, what, where, why, & how. That's my focus for current event news, I focus on that and cut away the rest.
It is foundational both reporting and how society should interpret news. The punditry that has found a way to slither into journalism finds no purchase with me.
To use another analogy here; I do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
@SentinelOfTruth @RationalLeft So many papers fill their front page with editorials nowadays. Or press releases.
@RationalLeft I'm running out of news I trust hardly at all. I still read The Guardian, but I wonder even if jaded and cynical me is merely _wanting_ to believe they're still trying to be good guys because I've been reading them for so long.