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False equivalence. Fox went to court to call themselves entertainment because of all the verifiable lies they were pushing. In court, Tucker Carlson said “no reasonable person” would believe him.

New York Times standards are much higher than Fox. Are they perfect? No. But generally they are far less likely to lie to you.

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You're trolling us, right? Maddow won a nearly identical court case using a nearly identical defense.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddow...

When did Rachel Maddow switch to being part of the New York Times? Or is it all just "liberal" media?

I complain about all USA corporate media, perhaps more accurately described as "war media". I don't recognize a difference between "conservative" and "liberal" flavors, since they are about as distinct as Coke and Pepsi. It isn't a surprise that both Carlson and Maddow use these techniques, since they both learned from Roger Ailes. NYT like to pretend they are somehow above these clowns, but they too have lied us into our every war. The idea is that fools will pay lots of attention to the spectacle of false disagreement and ignore the actual policies of every politician in the employ of billionaires.

The NYT is using a near identical defense in an ongoing libel lawsuit from James O'Keefe.

Source? That’s very hard to believe.

https://www.cjr.org/opinion/nytimes-project-veritas-defamati...

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