Is this fact checking going to be like Politifact, which has said that an article or tweet is "mostly false" while saying that the facts it contains are true?
CNN and MSNBC are both masters at using a cherry picked set of facts to support a narrative. Other sources often do the same, just not to the same extent.
Using a very limited set of facts to support your position is called confirmation bias. People introducing additional facts to question the narrative are simply labeled "fake news". "Conspiracy theorist" is a bit dated, but that was the line pushed from the 60s or so. The people exposing CIA operations were labeled, yet we found through more facts tha
Pure rubbish. Cherry picking is a common tactic for fake news. Look up CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and even ABC removing content to portray a narrative. To show that this is not new, look back at the first reporting of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case by NBC. Who was caught editing audio to make George appear to be racist instead of answering a dispatcher's question, they lightened his photos to make him appear to be white instead of Hispanic, and instead of displaying current pictures of Trayvon Martin pulled pictures of him as an elementary school kid instead of a 17 year old 6'1" young man who enjoyed MMA.
Cherry picking and editing are common tactics for media propagandists in the US. If you were fooled, shame on you. Plenty of lawsuits have been won against these media outlets for various civil reasons. Off the top of my head, ABC and CNN have both had to issue public apologies and retractions in the last month and a half for doing this, or would have faced even more civil suits.
As I said above, I never exonerated Fox. I simply said that they at least portray the left and allow them on shows making them not as bad as the two shows which are pure leftist propaganda. CNN and MSNBC will not have a Conservative on their show. They may cherry pick some video but there is never a debate, it's always leftist talk.
Fair point about OJ, but it's a bit harder to demonstrate as Youtube was not around back then.
Who decides what is fact? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: Who decides what is fact? (Score:5, Informative)
You can use many truths to draw a false conclusion. Conspiracy theorists do it all the time.
Bidirectional problem (Score:3, Insightful)
CNN and MSNBC are both masters at using a cherry picked set of facts to support a narrative. Other sources often do the same, just not to the same extent.
Using a very limited set of facts to support your position is called confirmation bias. People introducing additional facts to question the narrative are simply labeled "fake news". "Conspiracy theorist" is a bit dated, but that was the line pushed from the 60s or so. The people exposing CIA operations were labeled, yet we found through more facts tha
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People introducing additional facts to question the narrative are simply labeled "fake news".
"fake news" is the use of lies in place of facts. Or in your world is everything a fact, real or not?
You are fake news (Score:2)
Pure rubbish. Cherry picking is a common tactic for fake news. Look up CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and even ABC removing content to portray a narrative. To show that this is not new, look back at the first reporting of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case by NBC. Who was caught editing audio to make George appear to be racist instead of answering a dispatcher's question, they lightened his photos to make him appear to be white instead of Hispanic, and instead of displaying current pictures of Trayvon Martin pulled pictures of him as an elementary school kid instead of a 17 year old 6'1" young man who enjoyed MMA.
Cherry picking and editing are common tactics for media propagandists in the US. If you were fooled, shame on you. Plenty of lawsuits have been won against these media outlets for various civil reasons. Off the top of my head, ABC and CNN have both had to issue public apologies and retractions in the last month and a half for doing this, or would have faced even more civil suits.
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As I said above, I never exonerated Fox. I simply said that they at least portray the left and allow them on shows making them not as bad as the two shows which are pure leftist propaganda. CNN and MSNBC will not have a Conservative on their show. They may cherry pick some video but there is never a debate, it's always leftist talk.
Fair point about OJ, but it's a bit harder to demonstrate as Youtube was not around back then.