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Well, 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 proj
by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Well, 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.