(05-11-2019, 07:33 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-11-2019, 02:58 PM)Last42min Wrote: Is it? Knowing people think differently starts in grade school. You don't become self-aware until you start understanding your own motives. We are all guided by base presumptions we have about the world, but I don't think you're honest with yourself about your world view, which limits your ability to challenge your confirmation bias. Don't worry, we all have this problem. You just don't admit it. I think you would if you could, but you're just not self-aware enough to consider it. 

Do you realize that you ultimately ended up arguing in favor of my position regarding CNN video. Keep in mind, I conceded the video by Breitbart did not represent Sherrod fairly... that it took her out of context. I said it wasn't dissimilar to what happened at CNN, to which you defended CNN. In addition to being patently incorrect in your summation of the Breitbart video, I can use your own words to refute this. 


A viral video does not absolve a media company from doing it's diligence. The fact that one video was viral (and fit a narrative) is only mildly different from receiving a video that was not viral (and fit a narrative). Both companies released a video that fit a narrative that supported their world view. CNN did not vet their story. However, because you aren't honest with your biases, you absolve the one and condemn the other. CNN is arguably worse. There were still defenses of the story a full week after they knew it was taken out of context. Here's an excerpt from an Atlantic article: 


My point, in case you still can't see it, is not to say that it's ok for companies to do this, but that it happens. There are inherent biases in news outlets. They will be sued, and they will try to avoid making that mistake again. Breitbart has a narrative that is CLEARLY right, but to disregard all news from there is done for political convenience, not intellectual integrity. When you pretend it's the later, you show a lack of self-awareness. 

As an aside, when you get the facts wrong of a case and refuse to concede, it shows a lack of self-awareness. How hard is to say you misspoke?

Most of the outrage was over the native American's allegation that some of the students did a  "build the wall" chant against him. He himself posted on Twitter that this is what he heard. A CNN reporter actually happened to be on scene but could not confirm or deny that that was heard. she was not close enough. Even though we now have video of the event for multiple angles beginning to end, the audio quality is not quite good enough to rule out that at least some of the students did say this to him.

The Shirley Sherrod story ends on a note of "Breitbart got this completely and maliciously wrong." The Lincoln memorial story ends with something like, "this was a very difficult situation with at least three different groups of angry people, and CNN regrets being so sure of something that was ultimately ambiguous"