Re:5 Arrested, charged as illegal agents for China (Re: PRC'...
by ganoushoreilly on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:53PM
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Who watches the watchmen?
Also they can get the Story from Fox News and Tucker Carlson, except the response will be the same. Unless the story comes from a publisher that aligns with their ideals, they won't trust it. Given the story is negative against someone they're throwing support for, they have 0 incentive to share the news. The media isn't about truth in story, it's about truth in political position.
Based on the rating they give it does seem like a questionable source.
But if you want to go down that rabbit hole of who is or who isn't a questionable source based on some fact-checker you will eventually reach the question, how do we know that our fact-checker isn't biased? who funds the fact-checker, are there any political motivations over-ruling journalistic integrity, etc. And then eventually you arrive at a fact-checker that fact-checks other fact-checkers. And you can keep going down that rabbit hole forever or you can learn to use your intuition.
I will also say this: Even a broken clock is right twice per day.
And in the same vein, Even a questionable source can write an article based on facts every now and then.