Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by marcusverus on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:08PM (#24796326)

It's fascinating to see papers like Washington Post turn their noses up at the Post story because they haven't independently corroborated it, yet they were immediately citing the NYT Tax story as gospel with no indication that they had independently corroborated the legitimacy of that evidence (I tracked down their first articles on the topic via Google News and found nothing indicating that they were able to independently verify the validity of the documents).

This being the same newspaper that was forced to settle a lawsuit after defaming a minor in seven articles by lying about an interaction he had with a protestor--even though the encounter had been recorded and was freely available online.

These are the folks who are sticklers for independent corroboration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/washington-po...

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by hhw on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:59AM (#24798289)

The New York Post doesn't have a great track record on being factually accurate though, whereas the Washington Post can reasonably assume articles published by the New York Times have undergone some reasonable standard of fact checking (even if imperfect), so it's not a reasonable comparison.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by surge on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:11AM (#24798360)

NYT has become increasingly click baitish, and leaves out facts and mis-frames stories all the time. They publish opinion pieces as if they were factual, and and leave out key facts in stories or add opinion in to frame it in a way no reasonable person looking at the hard evidence would assume is the case.

They've lost their standards a while ago. The difference with these papers is they use the same tricks other papers do, they just write in a more "intellectual" fashion so you never question it because you feel smarter just reading it. But you go check multiple sources and you find there is the same kind of spin and framing you'd expect from Fox News on a topic.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by anthonyrstevens on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:09PM (#24803404)

>> there is the same kind of spin and framing you'd expect from Fox News

Almost every independent analysis of media bias and journalist quality disagrees with you. In fact, I don't know of one that agrees with you.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by marcusverus on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:23PM (#24850590)

Allsides.com rates the NYT (news, not opinion) as 'leans left' and rates Fox News (news, not opinion) as 'leans right'. Which ones disagree?

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