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@Mikey
I didn’t claim they were. They do, however, give me a good idea of the different POVs and help to get an idea of the whole picture. Often times from there I dig to find out more, sources like the LA Times, CNBC, Politico, The Hill. I don’t trust any news source, but I do try to verify and judge what I read.
Fox news is not a creditable source and after seeing videos about The Hill and its ties to Trump I don’t read that anymore. I fact checked Reason and it was deemed a center right, liberation platform that is prone to giving misinformation.
 
I use to watch fox news and they had me thinking the media was being too hard on Trump but after getting more informed I understood it was just right wing nonsense. I use to watch Perger University too, that also gave a crash course in right wing media.
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@Apple Thor  
Fox News has some good reporting, but is bias, CNN does as well, but they are bias. Both sides have done things that I morally question, remember when CNN doxxed a kid for a meme? I don’t avoid them because they also give me an idea how both sides think an approach a news story. If you avoid the side you don’t like and just listen to your own bias you’ll end up in a bubble.
 
For instance, you “fact checked” Reason. Reason is a libertarian website that makes no effort to hide this, they attack Trump all the time. It isn’t as easy as right and left.
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@Apple Thor
Fox News has some good reporting, but is bias, CNN does as well, but they are bias. Both sides have done things that I morally question, remember when CNN doxxed a kid for a meme? I don’t avoid them because they also give me an idea how both sides think an approach a news story. If you avoid the side you don’t like and just listen to your own bias you’ll end up in a bubble.
For instance, you “fact checked” Reason. Reason is a libertarian website that makes no effort to hide this, they attack Trump all the time. It isn’t as easy as right and left.
Just because you find a straw of hay in the needle stack does not mean its a good idea to go digging around in it. Fox news went on record saying they are not a news network.
 
Doxxing a kid < misleading the public on a global pandemic for months. Can you tell me which one caused more damage?
 
One excuse people give to defend right wing media is to use the “sides” argument. There are no sides in reporting ether you report the truth or you don’t. Why else do you think Fox News uses the term “Mainstream Media” They are informing you that they are not a part of the mainstream.
 
Just because Reason attacks Donald Trump does not mean it is a reliable source.
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Trump’s upbringing does reflect his attitude. He hasn’t really worked for anything and even now the GOP is treating Trump like a kid instead of a 73 year old President.
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They also tend to report in their News segments that “It is being reported [what their opinion segments said]”, basically creating the news for tonight this morning that they want people to freak out about tomorrow, so you have to take their reporting with a 16 lb salt lick.
 
But, yes, they’re losing their good reporters, so no idea how long they will survive as anything like a news organization.
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I kind of wish Fox News would reel in their opinion host. If Fox News ends up dying because of this, it might be a good thing because it would leave OAN as the new foxnews and from what I heard that station is bonkers.
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This is just one small example of a much bigger problem exhibited by Republican thinking.
 
Ever since Reagan, the idea of strangling government has systematically weakened not only the middle class, but the very institutions that had built over decades to ensure the US could weather nearly any storm.
 
Covid19, while unprecedented in its scale, has shown just how weak we are from 40 years of cutting every single string of the safety net, decimating the middle class, and pour all its resources into short term gains while ignoring the long term needs.
 
Sure, Democrats aren’t perfect, but I have seen time and time again the selfish, brazenly corrupt actions of Republicans just get sloughed off during election time because they wrap themselves in the flag, wave the Bible, and utter the magic words “Socialism, fiscal conservatism, religion, guns and abortion”.
 
Nevermind that not a single one of their fear mongering claims have ever come true, yet every single action they take always hurt the common man.
 
When will people learn, Republican policies are not in the best interest of the country?
Princess Applejack

@Violet Rose in The Rain  
Many die hard conservatives have a distrust of the mainstream media so that means when a Republican congressmen or president do something that in most other countries with a stable political system would cause public outcry or calls for resignation. A stanch conservative would dismiss it as liberal bias allowing said republican official to act without shame. Which is why during the impeachment trial, Republican voters ignored all the bad things Trump has done but instead focused on Joe Biden’s son. Republicans are kind of locked into a us vs them narrative so it doesn’t matter what Trump does. Republicans will back Trump because he is not a part of the enemy camp.
 
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«other countries with a stable political system»  
just write “dictatorships” there you have a stable political system, it’s always the same guy and it’s never gonna change!
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@Apple Thor  
You’re letting your bias in again. I’m not arguing that Fox News isn’t bias, they absolutely are. However every one of those sites I listed is bias, some more then others. You shouldn’t just stick to one news source because it agrees with you, you especially shouldn’t do so if you think that news source has no bias at all. At the very least you can get an idea of how other people think, which is a good skill to have. How can you discuss a subject with someone on the left or right if you don’t have any idea of their POV?
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Only 55% of Americans think the government is doing a bad job preventing the spread of coronavirus.
 
I’m starting to think America is a lost cause.
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Of fucking course Bernie drops out on my Birthday.
 
But hey, I’m not even surprised with every bad thing that has happened this year.
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