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Just an absolutely terrible take - ProPublica is one of the most reliable journalistic outfits out there. Read the original story that prompted the chemical lo
by mikeyouse 2y ago
Just an absolutely terrible take - ProPublica is one of the most reliable journalistic outfits out there.
Read the original story that prompted the chemical lobbyists to balk and point out where ProPublica says anything problematic. It's an extensively researched and data-backed story: https://www.propublica.org/article/formaldehyde-epa-trump-public-health-danger https://www.propublica.org/article/formaldehyde-epa-trump-pu...
> I get that they are left-leaning, however, every single thing they write comes from the perspective of “let’s start under the assumption that a conservative perspective is wrong and let’s build a case to bolster that assumption.” They’re published not a single story that doesn’t lean left. The assumption that the “left” is always correct until proven otherwise is just a slightly more sophisticated appearing version of what Fox News does more overtly.
Is holding Biden's VA to account "left leaning": https://www.propublica.org/article/when-veterans-cant-access-the-psychiatric-care-they-need https://www.propublica.org/article/when-veterans-cant-access...
Or reporting on the Biden administration's family separations at the border: https://www.propublica.org/article/family-separations-biden-russian-immigrants https://www.propublica.org/article/family-separations-biden-...
Or their lack of follow-through on investigating cyber attacks: https://www.propublica.org/article/cyber-safety-board-never-investigated-solarwinds-breach-microsoft https://www.propublica.org/article/cyber-safety-board-never-...
Or the failed FAA 5G rollout with the following quotes (https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-faa-5g-planes-trump-biden https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-faa-5g-planes-trump-b...):
> The process first ran off the rails under President Donald Trump. It then festered under the administration of President Joe Biden — which ProPublica’s reporting shows impeded the FAA when it finally decided to act — until a crisis forced an intervention.
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> But a new impediment had arisen: the Biden administration. The White House was discouraging any public action, as was the FCC, which was now operating with a Democratic chair but was every bit as supportive of 5G and the telecom industry’s position on it as Pai had been. They assured the FAA that the agencies and industries could somehow still work out the problem quietly. (A senior FCC official denies the agency requested any delays.)
Their focus on civil rights, criminal justice and corporate abuses could be coded as left-leaning I guess, but those things seem to be keeping them pretty busy.
- firefax 2y agoTo quote Steven Colbert: "reality has a strong liberal bias" (Not enjoying how folks on HN conflate liberalism with "the left" when they are two VERY different things)