If one can remove one’s mind from the bias associated with identifying with a political party or any ideology; ie. detach oneself from someone else’s regulations on what one must believe to belong to a group, one might see through manipulations.
Let’s talk about ABC news. ABC news is rated as left of center by most media monitoring centers.
Media Bias / Fact Check rates ABC News as center left
Cottrill Research rates ABC News as “leans left.”
AllSides Media Bias Check rates ABC News as left of center.
Ground News rates ABC News as leans left.
If we compare stories run by ABC News to other sources on the same topic;
At least 91 killed near aid centers across the Gaza Strip in last day ABC News
Palestinian Authority Daily: Hamas Is Preventing Gaza Residents From Reaching Aid Distribution Centers Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
A closer look at the human toll in Gaza as deaths pass 50,000 ABC News
Gaza war: Why is the UN citing lower death toll for women and children? BBC
Questionable Counting: Analysing the Death Toll from the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in Gaza Henry Jackson Society
Now let’s consider
4 things to know about ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show PBS
The person who pulled the plug on Kimmel was Disney CEO Dana Walden.
CEO Dana Walden leads ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations, Disney Branded Television, Disney Television Studios (20th Television, ABC Signature, 20th Television Animation and Walt Disney Television Alternative), Freeform, FX, Hulu Originals, National Geographic Content and Onyx Collective. She is also on the President’s Export Council, an advisory committee to the President on issues of International Trade. Wikipedia
Although ABC News is considered left they wanted to ditch Jimmy Kimmel on behest of US President for Life hopeful Donald Trump? Hmmmm
Consumer discontent, the cancellation of subscriptions to Disney media programs, convinced Disney and Walden to reinstate Kimmel.
Remember the time when we would laugh at someone who accused the left of anti Semitism? What tools are used to influence people’s minds?