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"Credible concrete arguments for why some article might be flawed or biased tends to carry a lot more weight than just attacking the place it was published in f
by harrumph 9y ago
"Credible concrete arguments for why some article might be flawed or biased tends to carry a lot more weight than just attacking the place it was published in for its political views."
That all depends. When it's been hidden, I think it's essential to know the ethos of the organization that paid for the work to be done and disseminated. It isn't plain in the piece that it was brought to us by the Manhattan Institute, which is one of many think tanks producing "journalism" that has never, ever found a problem that the "free market" wasn't the precise cure for.
Context is super-important.