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The responses are laughably long. If John Stossel made false claims, a few paragraphs should be sufficient. If you need to write two full length articles to exp
by temp8964 5y ago
The responses are laughably long. If John Stossel made false claims, a few paragraphs should be sufficient. If you need to write two full length articles to explain what happened, you don’t get to label other people as false/misleading.
- d4mi3n 5y agoWhile I don’t disagree that the responses may be overlong, I think it harms your argument to criticize the format of the response rather than the content. If we’re to have productive discourse, we must all act in good faith and look at opposing arguments with the most charitable interpretation reasonably possible, otherwise we risk arguing against an interpretation of viewpoint that others may not have or agree with. EDIT: having looked closer at the fact check website referenced, most of the length seems to be from references to research and expert testimony. The actual rebuttal is indeed a paragraph or two at the very top of the page. Is the presentation of the data here your primary objection?
- temp8964 5y agoLong is not about format. The content has to be long. This means simple label is wrong. This is a very easy point in my previous comment.
- burkaman 5y agoIt was not labeled as false, it was labeled as missing context, and this is the context. You can see the label here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10157121971976621&id=46675576620 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015712197...