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The Guardian isn't perfect, but you can't seriously compare it to Breitbart, which intentionally distorts facts on a regular basis, and goes out of it's way to
by IIIr3228 9y ago
The Guardian isn't perfect, but you can't seriously compare it to Breitbart, which intentionally distorts facts on a regular basis, and goes out of it's way to sensationalize and offend.
Would the guardian be caught dead printing these?
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/17/breitbart-news-worst-headlines/212467 https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/17/breitbart-news-...
Or have they peddled lies as big as these ones?
https://www.snopes.com/climatology-fraud-global-warming/ https://www.snopes.com/climatology-fraud-global-warming/
https://www.snopes.com/immigrants-california-wildfires/ https://www.snopes.com/immigrants-california-wildfires/
https://www.snopes.com/planned-parenthood-satanists/ https://www.snopes.com/planned-parenthood-satanists/
Look, maybe the media has a left bias. And it's plausible that right-leaning sources face more skepticism. That's not fair. But the reason Breitbart gets flack is because they really are that terrible.
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- nailer 9y agoWell yes, the cited Mark Duggan example is pretty damning, but there's Olivia Solon'a recent White Helmet article (which simply presents other secondary sources as if it was primary evidence) and the bizarre 'no such thing as false rape allegations' editorial, which as we've seen is false twice in merely the last two weeks.