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Comment by varelse | Hacker News Reader

As opposed to completely reasonable utterly sensible sources like One America Network News, Newsmax, and Russian Television?

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Strange comment. Seems like you lashed out because you think I am praising those networks? Those are all terrible sources of news. What if I told you that you can criticize one while also criticizing the other? It is liberating.

Implying CNN is as disreputable as the other sites mentioned is ridiculous and you know it.

CNN is terrible in my opinion. OAN and Newsmax and RT are more terrible, a lot more terrible. But that doesn't make CNN any less terrible on it's own... we're not grading on a curve here.

I agree with you there, that wasn't my intention. I was saying CNN is especially "eggregious" when it comes to Left media. Comparing with all other news sources from the left, I trust CNN the least.

If you say far-right media is completely bananas, you would be correct. That should not preclude you from making statements about others.

What if I told you I don't watch any of these 24/7 news channels because I think they are all garbage that share an agenda of making you very afraid and glued to your chair? Just last night my Biden NIMBY neighbors went up my street to warn us all of the imminent danger of the atmospheric river that is about to destroy the neighborhood (a suburb nowhere near any sort of flood zone).

I try to get my news from online and print sources ranging from slightly left of center to slightly right of center. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find slightly right of center sources of information because that's just not profitable anymore.

What is egregious to me is that all the curated news is now hiding behind paywalls but the sensationalist crap spanning the entire political spectrum is as free as the polluted air and the tainted water. Which is the way we all want it, well we get it etc.

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