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> Because of a single experience in 2015? No, because it is basically a tabloid/yellow press version of Fox News and Fox News is already very low quality in te
by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
> Because of a single experience in 2015?
No, because it is basically a tabloid/yellow press version of Fox News and Fox News is already very low quality in terms of actual informativity - too much editorializing, combined with garbage interviews. I thought the latter was somehow implied, but should have been much clearer about it.
> This is the reason that the comments section of almost every news website was removed.
Breitbart hasn't removed theirs, though. I just checked and the first comment on the first randomly chosen story was that "Hussein Obama created ISIS" with the reply "This. We need to exterminate the enemy within" - talking about assassinating a former president.
The comments are atrocial, check them out for yourself. And these are Breitbart's readers.
> I think everybody should be aware of the potential for bias and/or incorrect news produced by mainstream media.
Your position is not very coherent, because you are (i) agreeing that there is no viable alternative to "mainstream media" (most of the time, you can only correct them on the basis other mainstream media), and (ii) everybody is biased, has always been, and will always be. It matters how you deal with your biases, not that you don't have biases. I can get my news from the most biased news site on earth - Breitbart or Fox News or CNN, if you will, and be fully informed, as long as I'm able to distinguish news from editorials. It's no problem nowadays, with access to multiple news sources on the Internet. That doesn't make the source high quality, though.
In the end, all the news comes from journalists who film, photograph, write news at the place where something happens or as close as possible to it. New agencies and a few larger papers/TV channels can afford a large network of correspondents and freelancers - the remaining news provider just copy&paste/paraphrase, including Breitbart, of course.