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Violations of this "crap" are one of the reasons we're in such a divided time politically. Outlets like Fox News make heavy use of many of these fallacies every

Violations of this "crap" are one of the reasons we're in such a divided time politically. Outlets like Fox News make heavy use of many of these fallacies every day. Only when we understand these fallacies and how to stay away from them will we actually get back to reasonable discourse.

vowelless 10y ago
Notice how you off handedly scapegoated Fox News (not that they deserve acquittal) but no "leftist" media outlets in the context of political divides. I think that would be a sort of fallacy.
- tomrod 10y ago
  When the media gets called out, it issues a retraction. When infotainment gets called out, it spins up a distracting, angering crisis and ignores the problem.
  - alphapapa 10y ago
    > When the media gets called out, it issues a retraction. And by then it's too late: the headlines have been seen by the masses, and they're asking their friends, "Hey did you hear about...?", and they're adding it to their mental models of the world. The media source doesn't suffer; in fact they have already profited from the clickbait, so there's virtually no incentive to not publish false or barely researched stories, even if they later put two sentences of "Note:" at the bottom, which they actively discourage people from reading to anyway.
- Retric 10y ago
  What 'leftist' media? If you accept that fox is right wing, where is the 'centrist' media and what's leftist? In international terms their are no left wing media outlets, except insofar as not constantly expounding propaganda. PS: The US democratic party is moderate right/centrist, the democrats are right, left is outside of the discourse.
  - Retric 10y ago
    Can't edit it but that should have been. PS: The US democratic party is moderate right/centrist, the republicans are right, left is outside of the discourse.
snowpanda 10y ago
>divided time >only picks Fox News You see you're part of the problem right?
emodendroket 10y ago
People who have any interest in the topic are the least likely to need the information.

vowelless 10y ago

Notice how you off handedly scapegoated Fox News (not that they deserve acquittal) but no "leftist" media outlets in the context of political divides. I think that would be a sort of fallacy.

tomrod 10y ago
When the media gets called out, it issues a retraction. When infotainment gets called out, it spins up a distracting, angering crisis and ignores the problem.
- alphapapa 10y ago
  > When the media gets called out, it issues a retraction. And by then it's too late: the headlines have been seen by the masses, and they're asking their friends, "Hey did you hear about...?", and they're adding it to their mental models of the world. The media source doesn't suffer; in fact they have already profited from the clickbait, so there's virtually no incentive to not publish false or barely researched stories, even if they later put two sentences of "Note:" at the bottom, which they actively discourage people from reading to anyway.
Retric 10y ago
What 'leftist' media? If you accept that fox is right wing, where is the 'centrist' media and what's leftist? In international terms their are no left wing media outlets, except insofar as not constantly expounding propaganda. PS: The US democratic party is moderate right/centrist, the democrats are right, left is outside of the discourse.
- Retric 10y ago
  Can't edit it but that should have been. PS: The US democratic party is moderate right/centrist, the republicans are right, left is outside of the discourse.

snowpanda 10y ago

>divided time >only picks Fox News You see you're part of the problem right?

emodendroket 10y ago

People who have any interest in the topic are the least likely to need the information.