Comment by bsder
9 days ago
Is it more likely that no one is speaking the truth, or, more likely, to you, the truth looks like an agenda?
9 days ago
Is it more likely that no one is speaking the truth, or, more likely, to you, the truth looks like an agenda?
What I'm talking about is that the news tries to tell you what to think. You can read headlines on Google News about the same story, and see the bias of the publication in the headline pretty often.
Instead of reporting just the facts, they include opinions, inflammatory language, etc.
Reuters writes in a relatively neutral tone, as an example. Fox News doesn't, and CNN doesn't, as examples of the opposite.
If you don't notice, I doubt you're reading the news. It's part of the offering. Fox does it on purpose, not accidentally.
Everyone has an agenda. The question is whether they are also reporting facts.
This is the particular thing I care about. If I can count on their facts, I can mostly subtract their agenda.
See: https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive
The problem comes in when I can't count on the "facts" being reported.
What is wrong with reading other people opinions?
Newspapers in my country always were blogs before the internet existed. Its why they are still around and doing quite well- they don't just bring news.
It taints the full story pretty often--they omit details.