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Post by mstreepsucks on Jun 13, 2021 20:35:46 GMT
There was a study showing that listeners of NPR scored highest in quizzes to test accuracy of knowledge about current events. Fox News (which the poster above me suggests) scored the lowest, with Fox viewers knowing less about current events than the control group of people who didn't watch any news. Was the study rigged in any way?
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Post by gameboy on Jun 13, 2021 21:13:56 GMT
I ended up watching a lot of tv news the last couple of weeks, something I don't usually do
Fox was all about how Dr Fauci was a quack, masks were unnecessary, and covid was a red herring and a hoax. MSNBC and CNN were all about how Dr fauni was a hero and Biden handled covid correctly to a tee. They were two strident opposites toting a party line.
Al Jazeera and BBC are my choices for news. American news is all skewed either conservative or liberal. There's no middle ground.
I do like PBS but I know they have a hard left slant. And that's fine. They don't present most of it as "news" but as documentary muckraking.
So yeah, you didn't include BBC. But that's the only news show I trust without fact checking or acknowledging a bias.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 13, 2021 21:15:52 GMT
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 13, 2021 21:32:22 GMT
I voted other. The New York Times and The Washington Post are generally reliable sources of news. Sure, I do believe most of their journalists are on the left wing side of the political spectrum, but most of their reporting is solid and ethical. With Fox News, it's a mixed bag of opinion and news. Their opinion programming is practically unreliable. Shows like Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Ingraham Angle have hosted vaccine skeptics, COVID deniers, and paid lip service to the "replacement theory". Even some of their "straight news" shows ran bogus stories like Joe Biden wanting to restrict red meat or Kamala Harris pushing her children's book into care packages for migrant children, which they had to retract. They do. They have a weekly evening news program titled PBS Newshour, hosted by Judy Woodruff. |
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Post by wrigsham on Jun 13, 2021 22:33:53 GMT
You've gotta be kidding. Most of their political reporting is pure unsubstantiated garbage. I've lost count how many times they've been forced to retract.
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Post by Sandman on Jun 13, 2021 22:54:31 GMT
This:
"What Fox reports turns out to be provably true, and all the other channels follow each other in common progressive socialist reporting, mostly provably untrue"
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2021 22:58:05 GMT
I think they all at least attempt to report the facts. Just turn them off before the panels begin.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jun 13, 2021 23:06:30 GMT
The way it tends to go is that the people you most agree with usually supply the most truthful reporting.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jun 13, 2021 23:49:17 GMT
How in the actual fuck is Fox winning this poll?  |
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 14, 2021 1:51:54 GMT
You've gotta be kidding. Most of their political reporting is pure unsubstantiated garbage. I've lost count how many times they've been forced to retract. I could say the same thing for Fox News, which is currently being sued by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic for airing unsubstantial claims of election fraud.
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Post by wrigsham on Jun 14, 2021 4:56:03 GMT
Don't you mean "unsubstantiated"?
As I understand it the yet to be resolved case against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell may prove more straightforward than Dominion's and Smartmatic’s suits against Fox News, which has claimed that it was just covering the news regarding the case. Fox News journalists, such as Eric Shawn and Tucker Carlson, made it clear that Fox didn’t have any evidence to support Powell’s and Giuliani’s claims.
But whatever, that's nothing against all the fake poison that the liberal lefty media has been shoving out for years.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 14, 2021 9:30:32 GMT
I'm trying not to intervene in the discussion, but even to strangers like myself it's quite obvious there is an hypocrisy and double standard going on in the reporting.
Yes the right (mainly Fox) is biased towards the Republicans, but it does try to balance the news. It will report misdemeanours on the Republican side, whereas the same cannot be said of the liberal media.
If the news does not help, or is against the Democrat or liberal narrative, the liberal media (and press) will either ignore it completely, or viciously attack the source from wherever or whomever it came, and scream "racist" from the rooftops, and plays the race card whenever possible. That's not reporting news. It's partisan hackery. They seem to be incapable of discussing real issues.
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Post by ghostintheshell on Jun 14, 2021 9:32:34 GMT
How in the actual fuck is Fox winning this poll? I'm more concerned about Cartoon News Network coming in second  
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Post by Sandman on Jun 14, 2021 15:59:24 GMT
alfromni You my friend know what you are talking about! "Yes the right (mainly Fox) is biased towards the Republicans, but it does try to balance the news. It will report misdemeanors on the Republican side, whereas the same cannot be said of the liberal media.
If the news does not help, or is against the Democrat or liberal narrative, the liberal media (and press) will either ignore it completely, or viciously attack the source from wherever or whomever it came, and scream "racist" from the rooftops, and plays the race card whenever possible. That's not reporting news. It's partisan hackery. They seem to be incapable of discussing real issues."And how CNN (Clown News Network) has got 5 votes I will never know.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 14, 2021 19:48:23 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't both The New York Times and The Washington Post receive Pullitzer Prizes for writing articles which have since been debunked. I see no move from either paper to return the prizes with apologies. Or are they keeping them for works of fiction?
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 14, 2021 20:16:54 GMT
Don't you mean "unsubstantiated"? As I understand it the yet to be resolved case against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell may prove more straightforward than Dominion's and Smartmatic’s suits against Fox News, which has claimed that it was just covering the news regarding the case. Fox News journalists, such as Eric Shawn and Tucker Carlson, made it clear that Fox didn’t have any evidence to support Powell’s and Giuliani’s claims. But whatever, that's nothing against all the fake poison that the liberal lefty media has been shoving out for years. If that's so, then why does a large percentage of their viewership still believe the election was stolen? Also, Tucker Carlson is not a journalist in the strictest sense. He's more so a political commentator. Still, I give him some credit for challenging Sidney Powell to validate her claims on his show after her infamous press conference with Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis.
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 14, 2021 20:21:45 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't both The New York Times and The Washington Post receive Pullitzer Prizes for writing articles which have since been debunked. I see no move from either paper to return the prizes with apologies. Or are they keeping them for works of fiction? Not recently. There was one time back in 1980 when a Washington Post journalist named Janet Cooke wrote a story titled "Jimmy's World" that turned out to be false and the award was rescinded.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 14, 2021 20:39:27 GMT
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 14, 2021 21:40:35 GMT
Here's the full text of their award description: None of their reporting was debunked. The Mueller report validated most of their reporting, concluding that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Also, there were numerous ties between Russian officials and Trump campaign personnel, but there was not enough to conclude that a conspiracy had taken place.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 14, 2021 22:05:24 GMT
To Archelaus There was never any nefarious collusion with Russia by Trump or his team. His very actions on election of clamping down on Russia deny it. An army of leftist lawyers, investigators, and years of investigation by both couldn't find anything against Trump. Mueller had to say something to please his liberal buddies. They were expecting a smoking gun, but there never was one. In contrast Biden (and his son) is well embedded in the pockets of both Russia and China, and has committed a number of genuine impeachable offences. On the matter of foreign interference, Obama tried to interfere with the Brexit vote, and Biden is now trying to interfere in UK politics. Russia is well known for interfering with the politics of most countries. They don't need help from sitting premieres to do it. Notwithstanding, Biden is sure helping them. ---------- To everyone else: I don't really wish to be drawn into the discussion, after all America is not my coiuntry. That said I do have opinions. So now given, I'll leave you all to discuss amongst yourselves. Have fun!  |
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