“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says by MAGZine on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:52PM (#29258667)

That's an easy thing to say because it's more difficult to disprove. You could say that about the NYT, Al Jazeera, NPR, CNN, etc etc.

Of course the topics that an institution choose to talk about also biases it. If you spend all of your front page space complaining about unions and talking about business, that is a different bias than one who dedicates column inches to stories about the environment. Or different from once that dedicates column inches to ones about social issues.

But even if you go on wsj.com, I see "Biden EV Tax Credit Puts UAW Over Environment, Nonunion Auto Makers Say," -- which is such an interesting way to frame the topic, but certainly not what I would call neutral. The topic pits UAW versus Nonunion automakers.

If you want neutral news, in terms of content and in terms of story coverage, there are better options than the WSJ.

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Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says by csee on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @05:45PM (#29259812)

  "but certainly not what I would call neutral. The topic pits UAW versus Nonunion automakers."

How is that not neutral? It's an unambiguous statement of fact that the tax credit is favoring unionized automakers over non-unionized automakers, and that this particular distortion/difference in tax credit has no environmental justification and is designed purely to help out unions.

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Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says by ImPostingOnHN on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:35AM (#29262634)

> How is that not neutral?

the "news" headline is literally just a quote from only one side/perspective of the issue

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