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Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by mbillie1 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:23AM (#12700225)
I am not accusing you personally of this, but the tactic of continually accusing more and more mainstream publications of being left-leaning in order to make room for e.g. Breitbart / InfoWars is becoming increasingly common, and it's a wholly fallacious argument. All you need to do is push the boundary of the extreme right quite far along and all the sudden all ordinary news outlets lean "left" by comparison.
Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by jazzyk on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:13PM (#12701765)
There is wide-spread consensus that BBC, NPR and NYT are left leaning.

But this is not about right/left anymore - the scary fact (and becoming patently obvious to more and more people) is the fact that all "mainstream" media is pro-establishment (whether it is left or right is less important). That's why outlets like Breitbart, warts and all, have been gaining so much popularity.

Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by gadders on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:27PM (#12701907)
I know there are extreme right-wing news outlets, but there are also moderate "sensible" ones as well - the Daily Telegraph and Spectator in the UK, even the Daily Mail.

Breitbart isn't the anti-NYT, it's the anti-Daily Kos.

Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by talmand on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:30AM (#12701371)
To be fair, the opposite is true as well.
Re:Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing It... by mbillie1 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:05PM (#12702256)
Absolutely - it's less about left/right and more about "I can discredit reasonable sources as biased by recalibrating what bias means based on these extreme outliers"