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That is a false equivalency. NYT is biased but it is biased towards factual information. Fox is not. Pravda is clearly government controlled. The issue is that
by galaxyLogic 6y ago
That is a false equivalency. NYT is biased but it is biased towards factual information. Fox is not. Pravda is clearly government controlled.
The issue is that if media outlets provide only news their viewership wants to hear then it can go very wrong. But there is a difference. Some people want to hear accurate information while other prefer information that only supports their worldview.
This is different from the issue of trust. If you trust a media outlet because it always gives you news you want to hear then the problem is with you not with media that provides accurate information.
Note also that it is in the interests of those who want to spread misinformation that the public indeed loses its trust in the media. When that happens then anybody's opinion is as good as anybody else's.
- pessimizer 6y agoNote that it is also in the interests of those who want to spread misinformation that the public trusts the media that they publish, and ascribes its "failures" to incompetence rather than intentional manipulation of public opinion.
- sobriquet9 6y agoBiased towards factual information would be unbiased. Do you really need examples of NYT's bias?
- galaxyLogic 6y agoI don't really need them but would be interesting to hear what you think are some of the worst examples of that