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Huffington post if far from serious newspaper/media.They are yellow journalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism They exaggerates news in order to grab eyeballs. And their "liberal" attributes biased their stances a lot too.

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Is it Yellow Journalism or just an open medium for anyone to rant on whatever they want? I consider it barely above a Blog. (Not knocking blogs, just saying it's not even Journalism)

So called 'objective' journalists are just a bit more circumspect about their biases. You know where the Huffington Post is coming from when you read their articles. Who knows what the agenda of a random CNN reporter is. Even a bare recitation of facts is going to include some bias through their choices of which facts to include or exclude.

I find partisan media on all sides valuable to read because the people writing it have different motivations than your typical mainstream journalists. You have to use your judgement and read everything with a grain of salt, obviously, but viewing the news from a variety of perspectives is valuable.

I do not think anyone disputes that. Then again, in the copywriter's age, yellow papers are bastions of journalism.

> Then again, in the copywriter's age, yellow papers are bastions of journalism.

This might sound profound but it doesn't actually make any sense.

I think the parent means that the vast majority of published material is disguised native content such as "submarine" PR pieces, product placement, unmodified press releases etc. Since the overall standards have sunk so low, yellow journalism starts to look good by comparison.

I remember Matt Lauer asking Bernie Sanders why people were responding to his campaign. Sanders answered that it was because he was talking about things that the media doesn't cover - inequality, lack of healthcare, lack of education, the rich rigging the economy. Then he asked Matt how many times he had covered those topics. Matt just stared back - like a deer in the headlights. They quickly cut to commercial.

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