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pretty biased opinion section Like, that's what an editorial page is? What you are really saying is, they don't have the same bias as you. As for standards, th
by WillPostForFood 6y ago
pretty biased opinion section
Like, that's what an editorial page is? What you are really saying is, they don't have the same bias as you. As for standards, that's really unfair. They have high standards and are much more apt to invite opposing opinions than the NYT, or WaPo. They refused to endorse Trump in 2016. Good people can disagree with you for real reasons, not because they have lower standards.
- fulafel 6y agoThere's bias and then there's intentional misleading. Providing a platform for the Koch etc funded think-tanks doesn't fit into "just bias". Eg their attempts to undermine climate science.
- chrisco255 6y agoWhich billionaires should I be afraid of the Koch Bros or Bezos and Soros? I'm losing track. Tell me who I should hate.
- kortilla 6y agoDepends on if you like the letter R or the letter D.
- roenxi 6y agoHate I'm not sure about, but you should be nervous and distrustful of anyone to whom buying a PR firm is relatively cheap (as in, 2-3 days income cheap).
- ATsch 6y agoEvery single one of them. But if we are to make a ranking, I think spreading climate denial to protect your oil empire does do a lot make you uniquely loathe worthy.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoMight as well add the Masshole, 'strayan and Cheeto in Cheif to that list. I can't think of a single politically involved billionaire who doesn't have at least a couple very onerous "keep the unwashed masses under control" type policies they are trying to advance. Edit:typo
- WillPostForFood 6y agoAgain, you’re just confusing disagreement for bias. As if The NY Times or WaPo don’t provide a platforms for left wing think tanks? Are you worried about the bias of The NY Times Editorial page when they undermine the science of gender or IQ? The WSJ editorial page should be the most important thing you read every day so you can actually understand the reasoning (yes reason) of people with different positions than you.
- fulafel 6y agoNo, there's not a "both sides do it" situation in this production of intentionally misleading content in the most prominent newspapers.
- baggy_trough 6y agoIf you believe so, then you should try to break out of your bubble a little more.
- fulafel 6y agosee the recent insurrection at WSJ reported eg as " 280+ Wall Street Journal Journalists Sign Letter Blasting Opinion Section for ‘Lack of Fact-Checking’ and ‘Disregard for Evidence’" (https://www.thewrap.com/280-wall-street-journal-journalists-sign-letter-blasting-opinion-section-for-lack-of-fact-checking-and-disregard-for-evidence/ https://www.thewrap.com/280-wall-street-journal-journalists-...)
- baggy_trough 6y agoYour comment is fully compatible with my comment above.
- rswail 6y agoThe first problem is agreement on facts. For example, the following are questioned and dismissed by large numbers of opinion pages in the WSJ and other Murdoch papers and media outlets: * Is COVID a pandemic? * Is climate change happening at a rate that is unprecedented in archeological and geological time? * Is that climate change due to human activities? Let alone ridiculous assertions like claiming that the Democratic party in the US espouses "socialist" policies or that the GOP party has "fiscal conservatism" as an underlying principle.