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Can you post examples of this? Just curious.

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Not providing an example but Snopes is apparently biased in every single direction -- left, right, up, down, etc.

http://www.snopes.com/info/notes/politics.asp

That's a hilarious read. Every site that strives to be neutral should keep a list like that.

Yeah, there's no journalistic standards over there (and granted I don't think they ever claimed otherwise). Snopes tries to be a debunker, but for political matters, it'll just be debunking in favor of whoever wrote the particular article.

Great for chain letters and virus alerts, but there are probably better places to find out the truth behind the latest political outrage circulating among your friends.

Wasn't there some huge thing in the news about one of their political fact checkers being any actual liberal blogger? I seem to remember that from a couple of years back.

EDIT: Why was the question worthy of a down vote?

There was a blog post that got traction anyway.

But why is that relevant? I (and assume most people) are capable of assuming different modes of writing, including modes devoid of opinion; or with opinion carefully noted as such.

Parent just asked for an example and I remembered that.

People who feel strongly enough about something to write legitimately leaning fluff pieces are not the personality type that I expect to be able to assume writing modes devoid of opinion, personally. I know very few people who aren't considered moderate/independent who I believe could pull that off.

These are the same people who've been proven to disbelieve factual information when it contradicts their world view.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1284908...

That is the type of person that I would not trust in a "fact checker" position, especially one in which their version of events will be cited by others as "fact".

Kim LaCapria I think.

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