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Heritage Foundation has gotten to the point where it's about as bad as DailyKOS It's impossible to find any news site, reporter, researcher, or article that do
by crusso 14y ago
Heritage Foundation has gotten to the point where it's about as bad as DailyKOS
It's impossible to find any news site, reporter, researcher, or article that doesn't have some angle.
If I find information on the DailyKOS that appears factual and is worth considering then I do so. The Heritage article linked to has a wealth of research pulled from easily verifiable sources, mostly the government itself.
- rayiner 14y agoThere is a line between characterizing the facts to support your angle and misleading your reader. Heritage Foundation crosses that line. I wrote them off for their recent trumpeting of the fact that 47% of people have no federal income tax liability to falsely imply that half the country doesn't carry any of the tax burden. This goes beyond having an angle, it's just plain intellectually dishonest. The standard of discourse for an ostensibly respectable academic organization should be higher than that of a political campaign. At one time Heritage Foundation adhered to a higher standard. It no longer does.
- crusso 14y agoI wrote them off for their recent trumpeting of the fact that 47% of people have no federal income tax liability That writing off reflects your own bias. I could find a similar omission of the whole truth for any "think tank" or independent issues group you'd care reference. I could find similar omissions in the questions being asked and the stories being reported upon in every single news agency.
- tptacek 14y agoIt's a plainly and openly partisan site, and you haven't addressed the other (substantive) part of 'rayiner's rebuttal of your point.