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Most of Breitbart's inflammatory-headline stories are based on real scientific studies. This is sort of like pointing out (correctly) that a lot of junk food i
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Most of Breitbart's inflammatory-headline stories are based on real scientific studies.
This is sort of like pointing out (correctly) that a lot of junk food in fact also contains perfectly healthy ingredients. At the end of the day, it's a quality issue. And as applies to Breitbart, what it comes down to is that a lot of their stories are just really insipid (and basically contain way more noise than signal), even though (snippets of them) may make reference to more "reasonable" sources.
I strongly disagree with Breitbart's agenda but there are times when publications like WaPo post stories that are at roughly the same degree of the bias axis as Breitbart, just in the opposite direction.
MSM outlets do go a bit overboard, at times. But the extent to which (even during their worst lapses) their output resembles of the puerile drivel that sources like Breitbart produce every day, in nearly every every article -- just picking a random snippet from one of your sample articles posted above, at random:
This is a group that thinks anything ending in “salad” is health food. A pound of taco beef and a huge scoop of guac? It’s fine as long as it’s called a “taco salad”! Greens smothered in 700 calories of oily dressing? SOD OFF YOU STICK INSECT, IT’S A SALAD!
is basically negligible.