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Comment by symplee | Hacker News Reader

Not sure if it's a matter of the overall submission count that's giving this impression, but in the last year, users submitted:

6,612 articles from nytimes.com [0]

91 articles from foxnews.com [1]

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

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The way it should be, only one of those is a news site and it's not the one with the word news in its name.

The NY Times doesn't have a stellar track record either:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_controver...

Although I would much rather them than Fox if forced to choose. (As it is, I follow neither).

NYT produces plenty of "fake news" and biased hypocritical trash. All of the big media outlets are flaming dumpster fires, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzVzG_6jsZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v18b5ip95Es https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZewXzRxRen0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfxHG6yM5Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIGH7J5CLtQ

There's been a few occasions where I've found an interesting article on Fox News and I won't share or link it here or on Reddit, because I know that the bias is so strong against Fox as an organization that few people would consume the content with an open mind. So I go and track down another outlet covering the same story and link that instead. I'm sure other members here do the same sort of self-censorship, essentially. That's part of why you'll see 6000 submissions from NYT and only 90 from Fox.

> So I go and track down another outlet covering the same story and link that instead.

That's exactly what I do on Reddit. I haven't had occasion to share a Fox News link here, but I think I would do it because I trust this place more to make judgements based on the content of the article.

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