The problem with the current news cycle is the lack of Fact-Checking. The general rush to get the story out before your competitor comes at the expense of fact-checking.
This is actually a bigger deal than bias reporting. Because if we have bias information with factual information, someone can view multiple sources and get a bigger picture of what is happening.
However, when non-factual (or just flat out lies) are posted we are given conflicting information in which we will just stick to the source that we
The problem with the current news cycle is the lack of Fact-Checking.
And whom will you trust to do such checking? Certainly not anyone currently pretending to be such a checker...
The spoof — from even before Trump got elected — was that, if Trump claimed "the sky is blue", these checkers would denounce it as "mostly false" and "four Pinocchios", because the sky is sometimes red, and also black during the night...
Even if it weren't political — is wearing masks reducing or increasing the ris
And whom will you trust to do such checking? Certainly not anyone currently pretending to be such a checker...
Correct - except for your Wingnut Distortion Field has your perceptions inverted. Politihack, Snopes et all have a pro-establishment bias, which is inherently right-wing. Like when Politihack named as their "lie of the year" the Democratic claim that Republicans wanted to fundamentally change Medicare, which was fundamentally indisputable. Or WaPo calling Bernie Sanders a liar for using a study showing there are 500,000 medical bankruptcies each year in the US, when a previous WaPo piece had cited the same study.
"Pro-establishment" is "pro-big-government", which is inherently left wing.
Everyone wants to change Medicare. The left wants to expand it, making it apply to more people and have lower or negative co-pays. The extreme left wants Medicare to be available to foreign nationals, even if they've never been in the U.S.. The right wants to shrink Medicare (except for sick old people who figure they're owed far more than they ever put in). The extreme right wants to eliminate Medicare entirely (that's where I am).
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We need fact checking (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem with the current news cycle is the lack of Fact-Checking. The general rush to get the story out before your competitor comes at the expense of fact-checking.
This is actually a bigger deal than bias reporting. Because if we have bias information with factual information, someone can view multiple sources and get a bigger picture of what is happening.
However, when non-factual (or just flat out lies) are posted we are given conflicting information in which we will just stick to the source that we
Ministry of Truth will do the Fact-Checking (Score:1, Insightful)
And whom will you trust to do such checking? Certainly not anyone currently pretending to be such a checker...
The spoof — from even before Trump got elected — was that, if Trump claimed "the sky is blue", these checkers would denounce it as "mostly false" and "four Pinocchios", because the sky is sometimes red, and also black during the night...
Even if it weren't political — is wearing masks reducing or increasing the ris
Re:Ministry of Truth will do the Fact-Checking (Score:1)
Correct - except for your Wingnut Distortion Field has your perceptions inverted. Politihack, Snopes et all have a pro-establishment bias, which is inherently right-wing. Like when Politihack named as their "lie of the year" the Democratic claim that Republicans wanted to fundamentally change Medicare, which was fundamentally indisputable. Or WaPo calling Bernie Sanders a liar for using a study showing there are 500,000 medical bankruptcies each year in the US, when a previous WaPo piece had cited the same study.
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"Pro-establishment" is "pro-big-government", which is inherently left wing.
Everyone wants to change Medicare. The left wants to expand it, making it apply to more people and have lower or negative co-pays. The extreme left wants Medicare to be available to foreign nationals, even if they've never been in the U.S.. The right wants to shrink Medicare (except for sick old people who figure they're owed far more than they ever put in). The extreme right wants to eliminate Medicare entirely (that's where I am).