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"(Drudge, Mother Jones)" Holy false equivalence Batman. Drudge is a hardcore propaganda rumormill and linksite. Mother Jones does serious original reporting a
by Steko 13y ago
"(Drudge, Mother Jones)"
Holy false equivalence Batman. Drudge is a hardcore propaganda rumormill and linksite. Mother Jones does serious original reporting and opinion.
- dbrower 13y agoMJ "leans in" pretty hard too. The recent story on Elon Musk tries very hard to be a hatchet job, and comes off badly because of the forced angle.
- chipotle_coyote 13y agoDrudge Report is largely a link aggregator, though; their spin is pretty much limited to how they write their headlines and what they choose to link to. Mother Jones, as the parent said, does their own reporting and a lot of it, and they're arguably one of the few organizations that really gets into serious investigative journalism. To your point, MJ is pretty often engaging in "advocacy journalism," in which they're very definitely advocating a specific point of view and presenting the work they do as supporting evidence. Their view is that Elon Musk is hypocritical for arguing against private-public partnerships when many Silicon Valley companies, including his, took advantage of such partnerships. You may think they're playing dirty pool, and I'd certainly agree they're being deliberately provocative -- but I also think they see it as their duty to ask uncomfortable questions. The tone of their article certainly isn't respectful, but virtually every paragraph is implicitly (or explicitly) sourced.
- stfu 13y agoEven Wikipedia refers to Mother Jones as a "politically left-wing American magazine,". The reason why I was picking those two is that from my perspective both have been covering the Snowden/Greenwald revelations from a positive angle - even so they are politically from quite opposite ends. Greenwald seems to be keen on arguing that he is not trying to affiliate himself with the left/right spectrum. That is why I can see him getting decent exposure (and traffic) with this strategic positioning.
- kevinpet 13y agoMJ is serious original reporting and opinion from a committed liberal point of view. They are equivalent in bias, if not in quality.