Antiwar



    In my opinion, I think it comes down to how mainstream news decides what they will cover in the daily news. There's a theory called "Indexing" from a scholar Lance Bennett, that says news outlet tend to only report the range of opinions the politicians in Washington are already debating about. So if no one in Congress is seriously arguing against a war, the media treats being firmly antiwar as outside mainstream view even if a lot of people actually believe in that view. I also think that some of these big news companies don't want to seem too opinionated in one direction because that will make them seem like activists, instead of neutral reporters, which isn't great for their brand or their sponsors. 

    I've seen antiwar protests, and activists, but I never seen or heard of the actual websites. This is true for a lot of people. I don't believe is't anything of hiding the information, but more about resources, and algorithms. Big, well known news sources have high budgets, and marketing teams that get their content out in the media every day, while smaller sites are usually run by just a few people with only a few sponsors, so they are unable to compete with well-known outlets to push their content into mainstream news. Now a lot of what shows up on our feeds are decided by algorithms that are designed to keep us interested, and hooked, so we keep scrolling, the leading to them getting buried to where we don't ever see it. It's not because editors specifically block antiwar content. A small number of companies own most major media outlets, and some scholars argue that concentrated ownership creates incentives to avoid content that's too critical for mainstream. 

    I think we have to seek out obscure websites because the "acceptable range of opinion in mainstream news is pretty narrow, and it mostly tends to follow whatever's being debated by people in politics rather than what regular, everyday citizens actually think. Since antiwar positions often fall outside that range, they end up pushed down to the bottom to smaller, independent outlets instead of major networks. It;s also possible that some of these writings lean more toward opinion writing than investigative reporting, so editors treat them as commentary rather than news, therefore they don't pick up their content, regardless of the politics behind it. 

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