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> They hate him, but they keep doing him favors, the latest being an attempt to kill off his biggest primary rival. This is very untrue. The LOVE him. CNN and
by rhacker 4y ago
> They hate him, but they keep doing him favors, the latest being an attempt to kill off his biggest primary rival.
This is very untrue. The LOVE him. CNN and all of the left wing outfits have waaay more impressions during Trump's presidency. Right now there's nothing to view except fox news because everyone is looking for people hating on Biden right now and the left media is refusing.
- IceMetalPunk 4y ago> everyone is looking for people hating on Biden right now ...I'm going to need you to define "everyone" in this sentence for it to have any semblance of truth.
- kwere 4y agobetter the term "non-official narrative", less confrontational.
- IceMetalPunk 4y agoI guess my question then becomes two-fold: (1) what makes Fox News less official? And (2) why does there seem to be the implication that truth is determined by amount of authority? I.E. when looking for news, why would "non-official" automatically, without any other analysis or evidence, be considered "more true"? In the end, who says something only matters like... 1% at best. If you're looking for truth, then critically analyze the claims and the evidence they do or don't have, don't put so much stock in the claimants nor how much you want to agree with the claims.
- PenguinCoder 4y ago> what makes Fox News less official? You're kidding, right? Fox 'News', is "entertainment", not news. Beyond their very obvious bias they don't air anything resembling a news story, only manufacturing outrage through having an opinion. They don't engage in any critical analysis what-so-ever. Their credibility is non existent and quite literally on pair with a tabloid magazine. Fox is officially, not 'News'. Having an opinion about something, is not news. Entitled to that opinion, sure. But passing it off as a claim of 'noteworthy recent events', is absolutely despicable.
- nradov 4y agoFox News is no more or less "entertainment" than CNN or MSNBC. The actual straight up news content is almost always factually accurate. It's the opinion and analysis shows that are highly biased on all US based channels. Just turn them all off, they're all trash.
- IceMetalPunk 4y agoWell, yes and no. Accuracy is a spectrum when there are many claims being made per day. Back in high school, for my government civics class, we had a final project where we were asked to watch news from like 5 to 10 different TV channels, describe what the news piece was about, then cross-reference every claim and fact check it, giving each station a grade. Most news pieces were something between 70% and 100% accurate; but when I got to Fox News, the assignment became nearly impossible to even complete. They would describe a thing that happened in about 10 seconds, and then spend the rest of the piece's time just spewing partisan rhetoric and opinions. There wasn't even anything that could be fact checked after the initial description! I ended up just writing that in my report ("could not fact check, it was all opinions"). So, you're right that all news stations have some element of inaccuracy for the sake of ratings, but you're wrong in thinking they're all equivalent in the amount of inaccuracy. Fox is the worst offender on that front.
- IceMetalPunk 4y agoI agree with everything you've said. The question wasn't "is Fox accurate or reliable news?", it was "what makes Fox less official?" Official doesn't mean accurate. Fox profits from people believing what they tell them, it's just as much an authority as any other organization who benefits from convincing its followers of particular ideas. That's all I was pointing out.
- rhacker 4y agoMy definition of "everyone": https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/