Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by fulafel on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:12AM
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There's bias and then there's intentional misleading. Providing a platform for the Koch etc funded think-tanks doesn't fit into "just bias". Eg their attempts to undermine climate science.
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Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by WillPostForFood on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:24AM
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Again, you’re just confusing disagreement for bias. As if The NY Times or WaPo don’t provide a platforms for left wing think tanks? Are you worried about the bias of The NY Times Editorial page when they undermine the science of gender or IQ? The WSJ editorial page should be the most important thing you read every day so you can actually understand the reasoning (yes reason) of people with different positions than you.
No, there's not a "both sides do it" situation in this production of intentionally misleading content in the most prominent newspapers.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by baggy_trough on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:28AM
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If you believe so, then you should try to break out of your bubble a little more.
see the recent insurrection at WSJ reported eg as "
280+ Wall Street Journal Journalists Sign Letter Blasting Opinion Section for ‘Lack of Fact-Checking’ and ‘Disregard for Evidence’" (https://www.thewrap.com/280-wall-street-journal-journalists-...)
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by baggy_trough on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:17PM
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Your comment is fully compatible with my comment above.
The first problem is agreement on facts.
For example, the following are questioned and dismissed by large numbers of opinion pages in the WSJ and other Murdoch papers and media outlets:
* Is COVID a pandemic?
* Is climate change happening at a rate that is unprecedented in archeological and geological time?
* Is that climate change due to human activities?
Let alone ridiculous assertions like claiming that the Democratic party in the US espouses "socialist" policies or that the GOP party has "fiscal conservatism" as an underlying principle.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by rufus_foreman on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:30PM
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Do you think climate change is happening at a greater rate now than it did at the K-T boundary?
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by chrisco255 on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:34AM
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Which billionaires should I be afraid of the Koch Bros or Bezos and Soros? I'm losing track. Tell me who I should hate.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by throwaway0a5e on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:55AM
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Might as well add the Masshole, 'strayan and Cheeto in Cheif to that list.
I can't think of a single politically involved billionaire who doesn't have at least a couple very onerous "keep the unwashed masses under control" type policies they are trying to advance.
Edit:typo
Every single one of them. But if we are to make a ranking, I think spreading climate denial to protect your oil empire does do a lot make you uniquely loathe worthy.
Hate I'm not sure about, but you should be nervous and distrustful of anyone to whom buying a PR firm is relatively cheap (as in, 2-3 days income cheap).