> to actively engage in hidden manipulation of public views strikes at the very heart of democracy.
Indeed, Fox News, Britebart, and friends are terrifying.
Indeed, Fox News, Britebart, and friends are terrifying.
Also, if journalists are reluctant to be identified as Republican, perhaps the Republican party should do some soul searching about why this is so.
Assuming there’s no bias is naive.
Note that I'm not taking a position on those implications, but am saying according to your logic the above is sound.
Also according to your logic Dems should do soul searching because lumberjacks and truck drivers are mostly Republicans...
(Tweaking the algorithm to get bot-propogated t_d content off the front page doesn't count, it's a different subforum)
Brietbart is an entirely different category than Fox news. It will publish straight up conspiracy theories with no evidence. I'm talking "moon landing didn't happen" level shit. It's an insult to tabloids, to call it a tabloids.
Fox News is so comically biased to compare it to CNN is dishonest. CNN has liberal bias, sure, but it doesnt sink to the level of claiming Hillary Clinton had Seth rich assassinated (https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/may/23...) or completely makes shit up about supreme court candidates whole-cloth (https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/mar/18...).
Sure, they're gonna spend a lot of airtime on the "kavanaugh allegedly raped a girl in high school" story, or when the president says some messed up ish they're gonna go ahead and play that clip again and again, but that is a far cry from outright lying, which fox news does again and again, and which Breitbart does every breath.
Agreed, i didn't say otherwise and i didn't group it with other three websites. As an outsider, i have seen tons of people who are non-liberal (either centrist or right wing) get dismissed immediately even though there are times when the argument makes sense. Also, it filled with Russian hacking.
I never compared the three news sites. Parent point first two, i just said it's not like CNN is completely neutral as well. Also remember this is the same channel that didn't want you to download wikileaks and only listen to what they say. Did CNN's political commentator not actually pass questions to Hillary prior to the debate? How is that not biased?
I also completely agree with your points about Fox news and Breitbart and i do agree they are worse than CNN but we aren't on a binary scale. You can't just blame Fox news and Brietbart and completely ignore CNN (which the op did).
CNN has spent over a year covering the Russia investigation, breathlessly accepting any shred of hearsay that could possibly maybe implicate Trump in collusion, however it seems now that there has been no collusion whatsoever and the entire issue is fake. CNN has been pushing nonsense this entire time!
In fact I've watched both Fox and CNN my entire life and Fox seems to me much less biased than CNN as of late.
But its journalists don't lie at nearly the same frequency as fox's
Here's a very simple comparison, persue at your leisure:
Read about the leftward movement of Politifact here : https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politifact/
This does not mean Politifact cannot be trusted, but it potentually makes analysis like yours less accurate
Wow, so we need to look at each and every statement they have made and analyze their truthfulness before we can conclude which one lies more?
I take it you have never heard of statistics and sampling.
I believe this is proof that CNN lies less than Fox.
To convince me otherwise, you'd need to put the work in that politifact has done here, and compile your own list of statements, analyzed for truthfulness, from each organization.
My email is in my profile if you ever do this work. I'm happy to be convinced.
Do you have an example? I visit that site extremely rarely. And then only via a link to a story that looks reasonable on it's face.