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"I can easily fix your statement. Watch me:" But that's missing the point. My point is entirely about what the media calls "facts" and what gets called "facts"
by jerf 7y ago
"I can easily fix your statement. Watch me:"
But that's missing the point. My point is entirely about what the media calls "facts" and what gets called "facts" in these sorts of discussions and by "fact checkers", not whether or not in some hypothetical universe the media could indeed deal in objective facts alone. The fact that it could be done correctly does not mean it is done correctly; or to go with a traditional philosophical formulation, ought does not lead to is. Correcting me doesn't help anything, you need to convince the media.
And you will not do that, because dealing in psuedo-facts suits them fine.