(05-10-2019, 12:55 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-10-2019, 12:29 PM)Last42min Wrote: Split hairs if you like.

I'm not splitting hairs.  What CNN and WaPo did was report something that was already viral because it was viral.  The thing that was viral was taken on different camera phones, and the timeline was unclear as the initial photos and videos were being shared.  CNN and WaPo did not hesitate to share the additional information and views of the incident as they became available.
What Brietbart did was try to create a story where none existed, and they knew that no story existed while they were doing it.  Fox News parroted Breitbart's lies but then walked them back when more information came to them.

I think Fox News and CNN are basically equivalent, in that both go for shock value, but both are also willing to have their stories criticized and are willing to correct themselves.

Breitbart has never been anything but lies and distortion with no correction.

This is distortion. Breitbart is clearly right leaning and has a narrative to match. It has made errors (intentional or not), but has paid the consequences. It is a publisher. It can be sued for libel. The site would not and could not exist if all it did was tell lies. I have no problem with attacking their narrative, but do have a problem with outright dismissal of any news that comes from that site. 

I don't care if you post 10 examples of them screwing up. It posts hundreds of stories a day. ALL of the publishing companies make mistakes. You want to attribute intent to the one while absolving the other, but you don't know anything. You only know what you feel. You can't actually know someone's intent. Breitbart could have known it was lying or it could have just jumped on a story that was 'too good to be true,' due to bias. This what I believe WaPo and CNN did, but I couldn't say for certainty. Yet, you would challenge me if I claimed they did it out of pure maliciousness and you should. Yet you do the same for Breitbart. 

The reality is that all of the major news outlets are pandering to their audience. I don't think any news channel is doing a good job of covering what's important, but in order to get a picture of what's going on, you have to read/watch all of them and entertain what is being said. It's is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it. We live in a world where dismissal has become fashionable.

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