Say to who, when, and in what situation? And how does "the media" represent random, regular citizens?
Both "sides" can pummel and flog generalizations, stereotypes, and straw men all day long and it will never accomplish anything.
this is true, but the media is SUPPOSED to represent facts, when dealing with news, and is SUPPOSED to deal with what people actually think when analyzing what people think. I don't see that happening. Especially in today's more noticeable "news" sources, opinion tends to be very far to the left. "Mainstream media," if the stats given by Bill Maher are correct, are anything but mainstream, evidently, and in spite if everything, Bill Maher is pretty far to the left, mostly.
I do know that unless an opinion piece or opinion reporter/anchor/whatever is willing to work for Fox News or other conservative group, s/he will not be allowed to express any opinion right of Marx.
The trend is very far to the left, no matter where you look, in spite of what is claimed for 'what everybody really thinks.' And the media sets the agenda. We all talk about what the media tells us to talk about.
Censorship...not government censorship (though I see it there too) but private censorship by powerful private organizations, is very real and very prevalent. I wasn't kidding when I mentioned that people are being kicked off of KNITTING sites because they won't toe the 'Trump is a white supremacist' line. It's astounding. And troubling. I have no problem with far left opinions being expressed anywhere....I just have a problem with NOT allowing far right opinions being expressed right along side of them.