Rather a turnoff for me, and I stopped visiting the site 2 or 3 years ago, whereas in prior years I used to use it regularly as a source for articles I might otherwise miss. Now most of the links are very partisan and not informative, but more in line with propaganda.
Seems odd you haven’t visited in years but are so knowledgeable about what is on the site.
A quick perusal of its lineup today on the main page shows 13 articles from liberal Publications and 12 from conservative sites And the reader controls which article to click on.
I pop in there now and then and find little or even occasionally nothing to read, whereas 5+ years ago it was a trove of good and interesting articles.
The problem is the selection.
RCP pits two opposing highly partisan articles against each other.
It's like the old Face Off cable TV show where a Lefty and Righty shout at each other in disagreement.
Looking at the Top 8 articles right now, the 4 Right-wing articles are from Epoch Times, NY Post, Fox News, National Review. Yikes.
The corresponding Left articles are Politico, New Yorker, Guardian, Atlantic.
I'd claim that the Right articles are generally more hard core partisan and propagandistic than those on the Left.
Which is generally true of media distribution in the US, with the mainstream media center left.
Media 'Calling' Elections in a Democracy Is Fascism Roger L. Simon, Epoch Timesjust isn't appealing to me. Just an echo of the Trumpist line that the media doesn't decide the election the people do, ignoring the obvious fact that after the people decide the election, the media relays that information.
I still think one of the awful aspects of Trump's tenure was the vilification of the media. A president saying "the media is the enemy of the people" is anti-American and dangerous. And unfortunately that harm isn't going to leave when Trump is dragged out of the WH. Look at the Constitution, the media is a protected asset of American democracy. Trump treated the right wing media and especially Fox News as a campaign asset, a propaganda machine that should back and support
his candidacy.
Why Dems Are Furious Over Loss of Anti-Trump Politics Brendan O'Neill, NY PostYeah, uh-huh
And those were just the first two Right articles. It goes on and on.
I'm interested in reading information from a right and conservative perspective.
I'm not interested in reading propaganda pieces from either side that are opinion screeds, light on facts, heavy on partisanship, mere political arguments in bad faith.
That's the sewer that RCP has willingly dived into, presumably to meet the Trump moment.
Of the first 20 RCP articles, I clicked just 2.
Gary Kasparov - How Trump’s ongoing tantrum against democracy hurts America because he's an interesting writer/thinker, interested in core democracy and will likely relate the results and problems of US democracy to Russia/Putin.
So a slightly different perspective.
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Republican Backlash Against Fox News Explodes - John Nolte - BreitbartHopefully a decent GOP infighting analysis and not just a screed. Fox News and Murdoch have played an outsized and deleterious role in American politics for decades now. This weird dance where Murdoch flexes his muscles and shows Trump that Trump needed Fox more than Fox needed Trump has been interesting and I'd be interested in post mortems on that.
Digging deeper, I found an article that appears fairly neutral, a rarity on RCP:
Georgia’s twin January runoffs are set to determine control of Senate from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
So with effort this wasn't too bad (I think).
But post-election should be a super-prime time for lots of good article and opinions which is why I'm back at RCP this week.
Most of what is on offer is still dreck.
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