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I have yet to witness MSNBC pour their efforts into deliberate misinformation. They clearly have a bias, but they are at least peddling correct information.
by WoahNoun 6y ago
I have yet to witness MSNBC pour their efforts into deliberate misinformation. They clearly have a bias, but they are at least peddling correct information.
- cwkoss 6y agoI think "deliberate" is a hard thing to determine with available information, and Politifact has certainly has selection bias is what they check and some ratings are questionable, but I think this demonstrates that they don't always 'peddle correct information': https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=rachel-maddow https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=rachel-m... I do think MSNBC's MO tends towards bending truth to make emotional appeals against ideological opponents rather than reporting outright fabrications, such as: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/05/zerlina-maxwell/was-bernie-sanders-mute-race-gender-top-his-2020-k/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/05/zerlina-ma... Also, a lot of their Russiagate reporting was questionably and thinly sourced. I suspect it will be a couple more years before the public gets enough substantive facts to outright call their reporting and analysis on this topic "false" or "intentionally misleading" but they certainly had a number of questionable segments.
- WoahNoun 6y agoThe latest "False" fact check on that page is from 2015. Meaning that she went through the 2016 primary, 2016 election, the entire Trump presidency, and the 2020 election since the last time Polifact rated one of her claims false. And the claim was sourced from Pew Research but mistakenly interpreted. Meanwhile on Fox News, Tucker Carlson had a "pants on fire" just last week. https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/ https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/