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Do we have to link to fox news?

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That's somewhat prejudiced, no? Besides, the content is originally from here[1], Fox News just republished it.

[1]: http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/mystery-structures-china...

That's somewhat prejudiced, no?

The point of avoiding Fox is to eschew prejudice, I'd say.

You could summarize this story as "Yep, China has spy satellites," which isn't actually news to anyone who's interested. It's exactly the sort of "keep the people afraid" non-news Fox has become infamous for.

Well that's not the entire story. The entire story was, China has these odd things on the ground. What are they? This follow-up just provides an answer to that. You might say "what is the use of the Hubble telescope, all it tells us is "yup, there's more stars"?".

CNN, MSNBC, and aljazeera are also all biased. In fact, all news is.

The only difference is that you don't agree with the politics of Fox news.

I don't know about CNN, MSNBC, or Aljazeera, but Fox News admitted to fabricating stories and lying in court (bizarrely, they won the right to lie and call it news in said same court).

http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/... http://digg.com/news/entertainment/the_daily_show_fox_news_l...

(I'm for totally ignoring CNN, MSNBC, and Aljazeera as well if they admit to intentionally misleading the public.)

Bias isn't bit-field. It's perfectly possible for all news to be biased and for Fox to be in a terrible, egregious class of its own.

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