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"To the extent that there is bias, it is slight and subtle. Opinion is labeled as such. Pointing to specific counter-examples is like identifying NASA with the
by Clanan 10y ago
"To the extent that there is bias, it is slight and subtle. Opinion is labeled as such. Pointing to specific counter-examples is like identifying NASA with the failures of the Challenger -- it completely misses the forest for the trees."
Are you serious? You broadly profess the journalistic integrity of multiple institutions that have been embroiled in ethics scandals and then preemptively disallow any responses as missing the point. What a disingenuous and absurd statement.
Forgive my nearsightedness, but I would argue that a prominent newspaper has serious problems, far past "slight and subtle" bias, when its own writers are secretly giving drafts and veto power to a political campaign [0]. Keep in mind I'm not defending right-leaning publications, either. They have their own set of problems. But this ironic, constant claim that left-leaning publications are above reproach or criticism is laughable. We, the readers, must always keep them honest through our own honest critiques and feedback.
[0] http://nypost.com/2016/10/11/the-new-york-times-abandoned-its-integrity-just-to-bash-donald-trump/ http://nypost.com/2016/10/11/the-new-york-times-abandoned-it... - first that popped up in Google
- wcummings 10y agoAre you seriously citing the New York Post to make a point about media bias and integrity? I read the nypost for fun but it's barely a real newspaper, and to the extent that it is it's extremely biased and unprofessional.
- leot 10y agoFOX News literally circulates a memo, every day, that guides its treatment of political subjects. That they have a primary goal of pushing an agenda is made manifest by FOX's abrupt termination of coverage of a meeting between President Obama and the GOP when it began to show Obama in a sympathetic light. Name one example of another mainstream media outlet being this institutionally cynical. https://mediamatters.org/research/2010/01/30/fox-cuts-away-from-obama-gop-qampa-but-airs-gop/159818 https://mediamatters.org/research/2010/01/30/fox-cuts-away-f... http://www.cc.com/video-clips/kja25r/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-moment-of-zen---roger-ailes-defends-fox-news http://www.cc.com/video-clips/kja25r/the-daily-show-with-jon...
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- AnimalMuppet 10y agoCNN feeding the debate questions, in advance, to one campaign but not the other? Or do you not count CNN as mainstream?
- leot 10y agoSo, that's institutional?
- drak0n1c 10y agoBelow are examples of MSNBC & CNN being just as consciously cynical in pushing their agenda. If you're honestly curious I recommend checking NewsBusters as often as checking MediaMatters. MSNBC cropped video of the only man open carrying an AR-15 outside one of Obama's townhalls to hide his race (he was black), and then used the cropped footage to immediately launch into a discussion on whether armed protestors were "racially motivated". http://www.mediaite.com/tv/busted-msnbc-caught-dishonestly-editing-town-hall-gun-footage/ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/busted-msnbc-caught-dishonestly-e... CNN's Chris Cuomo falsely told viewers that it was illegal for regular citizens to go online and view the Wikileaks documents, and that is was only legal for CNN to view them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-beYBLrkNAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-beYBLrkNAg CNN also abruptly terminates interviews and silences microphones when guests calmly start providing different opinions or news from what they want their guests to offer. Terminating Congressman Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbA5RE9eK08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbA5RE9eK08 Compilation of many other CNN cuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYRN8Clddw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYRN8Clddw They even silenced Bernie Sanders for a minute after he made a brief joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSBBaM1GCyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSBBaM1GCyY
- leot 10y agoAll of those look to be accidental. Can you show a bias in technical errors that's partisan in nature? When Fox cut it was deliberate.
- enraged_camel 10y agoNew York Post is a tabloid. Please don't cite them to support arguments about journalistic integrity.