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OK, you're right about the single source (the law firm) and the incentive to lie. Let's suppose, though, that the trial does happen, but only Fox News and righ

OK, you're right about the single source (the law firm) and the incentive to lie. Let's suppose, though, that the trial does happen, but only Fox News and right-wing news sources choose to cover it. Then what do you think? Is your answer still: no non-biased news sources so it may not have happened? And if your answer is "that scenario would not occur" then I offered to disprove that. Calling that a "conspiracy story" is also not a good look.

nobody9999 4y ago
>Let's suppose, though, that the trial does happen, but only Fox News and right-wing news sources choose to cover it. Then what do you think? Is your answer still: no non-biased news sources so it may not have happened? You're missing GPs point. They aren't saying that "no center-right media outlets like CNN or MSNBC are covering this, so we have no corroboration." IIUC, they're saying that "no news outlets have covered this, and the only sources are the law firm filing suit and a think tank regurgitating the law firms press release." They made no mention of what sorts of media outlets they consider biased, just that the actors providing the press release aren't media outlets at all. Rather, they are interested parties with an obvious viewpoint/agenda. And if/when the case is adjudicated (however that turns out), perhaps it will be covered by a few/some/many/most (regardless of what you or anyone else thinks of any of them) media outlets. And the outcome of the case will speak for itself, regardless of who reports (or doesn't) what. tl;dr: you made assumptions about GP that aren't supported by what they said. That's why your argument appears to be specious.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  A local news station covered it https://www.12news.com/amp/article/news/local/arizona/arizona-mom-left-son-at-park-to-buy-groceries-now-shes-fighting-to-stay-off-department-of-child-safety-watch-list/75-d3791ff4-184e-44b0-86b4-f399caa208d2 https://www.12news.com/amp/article/news/local/arizona/arizon... Hard to find due to the sheer volume of cases against the CPS but wasn’t difficult enough to start a mini-rage.
- Cupertino95014 4y ago
  I'm sorry, but there are certain stories that are just not covered by "respectable" media outlets at all, and never will be. How much have you read about Nancy Pelosi's husband, for example? Or AOC's fake handcuffs? GP is right about it SO FAR, as I admitted. However, most of the media these days, respectable and otherwise, are just "regurgitating press releases" which makes it difficult to separate Alex Jones-type conspiracies from the Hunter Biden laptop "conspiracies" which turn out to be true. Absence of stories doesn't mean there isn't a story there. Unfortunately.
  - mrguyorama 4y ago
    >difficult to separate Alex Jones-type conspiracies from the Hunter Biden laptop "conspiracies" which turn out to be true. It makes it difficult to separate because the laptop story was also just as horseshit. Where is the laptop by chance? >How much have you read about Nancy Pelosi's husband https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/business/a-congressional-conflict-of-interest.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/business/a-congressional-... Get out of here with your "MSM" conspiracy bullshit.
    - Cupertino95014 4y ago
      So why do you say it's horseshit? Because MSN is an unreliable site? How about this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-new-york-times-admits-authenticity-of-hunter-biden-s-laptop/ar-AAVcQ2V https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-new-york-times-a... Calling it conspiracy bullshit: let's see what one of those crazy right-wing sites, Yahoo [1], says: [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-husband-just-bought-151000595.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-husband-just-bou...

nobody9999 4y ago

>Let's suppose, though, that the trial does happen, but only Fox News and right-wing news sources choose to cover it. Then what do you think? Is your answer still: no non-biased news sources so it may not have happened? You're missing GPs point. They aren't saying that "no center-right media outlets like CNN or MSNBC are covering this, so we have no corroboration." IIUC, they're saying that "no news outlets have covered this, and the only sources are the law firm filing suit and a think tank regurgitating the law firms press release." They made no mention of what sorts of media outlets they consider biased, just that the actors providing the press release aren't media outlets at all. Rather, they are interested parties with an obvious viewpoint/agenda. And if/when the case is adjudicated (however that turns out), perhaps it will be covered by a few/some/many/most (regardless of what you or anyone else thinks of any of them) media outlets. And the outcome of the case will speak for itself, regardless of who reports (or doesn't) what. tl;dr: you made assumptions about GP that aren't supported by what they said. That's why your argument appears to be specious.

UncleEntity 4y ago
A local news station covered it https://www.12news.com/amp/article/news/local/arizona/arizona-mom-left-son-at-park-to-buy-groceries-now-shes-fighting-to-stay-off-department-of-child-safety-watch-list/75-d3791ff4-184e-44b0-86b4-f399caa208d2 https://www.12news.com/amp/article/news/local/arizona/arizon... Hard to find due to the sheer volume of cases against the CPS but wasn’t difficult enough to start a mini-rage.
Cupertino95014 4y ago
I'm sorry, but there are certain stories that are just not covered by "respectable" media outlets at all, and never will be. How much have you read about Nancy Pelosi's husband, for example? Or AOC's fake handcuffs? GP is right about it SO FAR, as I admitted. However, most of the media these days, respectable and otherwise, are just "regurgitating press releases" which makes it difficult to separate Alex Jones-type conspiracies from the Hunter Biden laptop "conspiracies" which turn out to be true. Absence of stories doesn't mean there isn't a story there. Unfortunately.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  >difficult to separate Alex Jones-type conspiracies from the Hunter Biden laptop "conspiracies" which turn out to be true. It makes it difficult to separate because the laptop story was also just as horseshit. Where is the laptop by chance? >How much have you read about Nancy Pelosi's husband https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/business/a-congressional-conflict-of-interest.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/business/a-congressional-... Get out of here with your "MSM" conspiracy bullshit.
  - Cupertino95014 4y ago
    So why do you say it's horseshit? Because MSN is an unreliable site? How about this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-new-york-times-admits-authenticity-of-hunter-biden-s-laptop/ar-AAVcQ2V https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-new-york-times-a... Calling it conspiracy bullshit: let's see what one of those crazy right-wing sites, Yahoo [1], says: [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-husband-just-bought-151000595.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-husband-just-bou...