There may be problems with the OP's argument, but your response is fallacious itself and does not address them. Linking to Breitbart isn't a great idea, but doesn't invalidate everything else that was said.
That the news lied about the January 6 event and also lied about the black lives matter protests?
In their own words 50,000 people were at the capital so they said it would be statistically likely for people to die. That is ridiculous otherwise large concerts would have deaths associated with it.
But they don't apply their logic to the BLM protests where estimates of 15 to 26 million people protested [1]. They don't think that of those millions it would be a very small group causing trouble.
Also. Breitbart is a "news" outlet which has a "black crime" section. They are objectively a racist publication and it's laughable to use that as a source when calling out bias in NPR and Fox news.
It's a transparent if they say "oh it was the first article I saw when I searched" they don't think that it's indicative of it being untrustworthy reporting but instead some truth the "MSM" don't want to tell.
Likewise the Nypost is very much a outlet that spins facts to suit their narrative. That isn't a secret.
So OP's argument is just that they prefer when people tell them what they want to hear.
colordrops|5 years ago
Jonnax|5 years ago
That the news lied about the January 6 event and also lied about the black lives matter protests?
In their own words 50,000 people were at the capital so they said it would be statistically likely for people to die. That is ridiculous otherwise large concerts would have deaths associated with it.
But they don't apply their logic to the BLM protests where estimates of 15 to 26 million people protested [1]. They don't think that of those millions it would be a very small group causing trouble.
Also. Breitbart is a "news" outlet which has a "black crime" section. They are objectively a racist publication and it's laughable to use that as a source when calling out bias in NPR and Fox news.
It's a transparent if they say "oh it was the first article I saw when I searched" they don't think that it's indicative of it being untrustworthy reporting but instead some truth the "MSM" don't want to tell.
Likewise the Nypost is very much a outlet that spins facts to suit their narrative. That isn't a secret.
So OP's argument is just that they prefer when people tell them what they want to hear.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-flo...
lettergram|5 years ago
Here's the web archive link to the politifact website (from the first sentence of the Breitbart article):
https://web.archive.org/web/20210222190401/https:/www.politi...
bsenftner|5 years ago