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binstein
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06 Mar 2021, 3:43 am

Two examples:
CNN and Foxnews
Both are guilty of interpreting and distorting reality to accomadate their own political agenda.

It's really difficult to trust news media actually, political bias are a problem. Fnord's skeptic resources are helpful with this, speaking of which, I wouldn't count MythBusters to be on the list, they "tested" things but they didn't appeared to use the right methodology to test things other than the show being entertaining. One episode regarding the polygraph was a dissapointment.



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17 Mar 2021, 7:20 am

Not at all. The media has proven over and over that they are just a political propaganda machine.
WaPo just confessed this week that the "Find the Fraud" quote was false information.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

This false narrative was picked up an repeated by every major news network without anyone checking to see if it was even true.



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18 Mar 2021, 8:37 am

Fnord wrote:
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Absolutely not. They are supposed to be a watch dog of the government but have become it's lap dog.
Strange ... I thought you once said that the Media had been enslaved by the corporations.

Not necessarily a contradiction.



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18 Mar 2021, 8:48 am

binstein wrote:
Two examples:
CNN and Foxnews
Both are guilty of interpreting and distorting reality to accomadate their own political agenda.

It's really difficult to trust news media actually, political bias are a problem. Fnord's skeptic resources are helpful with this, speaking of which, I wouldn't count MythBusters to be on the list, they "tested" things but they didn't appeared to use the right methodology to test things other than the show being entertaining. One episode regarding the polygraph was a dissapointment.


Add the BBC onto that list as it is no co-incidence if their letters can also be missinterpreted as the British Brainwashing Channel. :D


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18 Mar 2021, 9:37 am

Fnord wrote:
Mr Reynholm wrote:
Absolutely not. They are supposed to be a watch dog of the government but have become it's lap dog.
Strange ... I thought you once said that the Media had been enslaved by the corporations.



Media equals public manipulation be it corporate manipulation or governmental ,


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