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• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Facts have a liberal bias.

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• cardfire@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  TBH it’s been frustrating to see how watered down the reporting has been this year.

  Listening to KQED (local NPR affiliate) I was hearing taking heads from the CATO institute and the Heritage Foundation, without any qualifications of what those orgs are.

  You can really feel the slide into milquetoast, neutered, both-sides press from every major outlet and the domestic landscape, but it’s still a head above trying to get your news from CNN/CNBC/MSNBC/WaPo.

  I can’t fathom people on this platform being offended by how left-wing the people’s Media has been though, historically, when they have gone out of their way to be so damned neutral and nakedly honest in their coverage.

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  • LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    TBH it’s been frustrating to see how watered down the reporting has been this year.

    Agreed. Perhaps it’s because they were trying hard to deliver unbiased news (which is boring), whilst every other news station focuses on sensationalism or clickbait to get more viewers.

    Regardless, they lost their federal funding anyway simply because they did their job and did it well IMO. Sad.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  unbiased reporting

  no such thing

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Used to be! When I was a kid and we had 3 or 4 TV stations to choose from, and they all pretty much reported the same factual news. Being seen as having a bias was poisonous. People picked a news anchor to watch according to how trustworthy they felt he way. Imagine that!

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    • cardfire@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The bias was ordered from the top down …

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Every human endeavor is biased. Best we can do is try to be transparent about our biases.

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      • cardfire@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        npr.org/…/sinclair-broadcast-group-forces-nearly-…

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