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Exploring Southern US Politics and Media Bias

Liberal bias with a concentrated whiff of transatlantic condescension, courtesy of a fundraising email from the ultra-left UK-based newspaper The Guardian. Eyeing the liberal market in the United States during an election year, the outlet is tapping potential donors in their readership through a most condescending email package, under the signature of its “Southeast reporter” on “politics and democracy” reporter George Chidi:

I cover politics and democracy for the Guardian from down here in Atlanta. My beat is the southern states – the heart of both Trump politics and far-right extremism. My interest between now and the election is in protecting democracy from the forces threatening to destroy it.

It’s well established that The Guardian isn’t exactly striving for objectivity or balance – more like the PBS/NPR market of easily scared…

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