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Originally Posted by Jaydelart
I said I'd stop with the derailing, but I've changed my mind.
Are we saying that since there are (potentially rival) programs dedicated to contradicting one of the only major Conservative/Republican programs in America, we should assume they're more legitimate? If I'm being ignorant, I'm not doing so intentionally, and I apologize. I don't consider myself only limited to either Liberal or Conservative views, but I've honestly witnessed enough blind bashing from the left-wing in recent years to become considerably wary of the one-sided accusations implicated here.
I'll submit: FOX is probably guilty of twisting the truth. I don't deny that high possibility. It would be nice to hear someone from the opposite side admit their sources are likely guilty of lying also.
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I think the thing here is that you are treating this more like a hypothetical scenario. You apparently have "left wing media" on the one hand and so naturally you have "right wing media" to counter it.
In fact all youve done there is bought the FOX narrative.
The way I see it (and Im sure MMM agrees) is that on the one hand you have the media institutions which try to uphold journalistic integrity. Things such as trying to get both sides of the story, removing yourself from the story and focus on the facts and relevant opinions, even simple things like sourcing statistics when you give them etc. (How many times have you heard a FOX news presenter give some sort of statistic without saying who did the research and in what context?)
On the other hand you have FOX news which is violates these rules all the time.
Again.. if you have access to the BBC I would suggest going over to them. Of course they arent perfect but I think they have the best journalistic integrity of all the worldwide news networks.