Check Your Sources, Check Their Sources

[Precious_b]

Originally Posted by pxmcc

1. Trump has been in bed with Putin since day one. he requested that the Russians interfere in a U.S. election, which they did. he stated that he believes Putin over the CIA. he's still in bed with Putin. Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his grave.

You should query the maggies about the meeting they had with the russian lady supposedly about orphans. Ima sure they'll show where donny philanthropic ties are there.

2. Hunter Biden is a private citizen who has never held political office. what is or isn't on his laptop is no more relevant to the public trust than what's on your laptop.

True. But hearing Woodward, he thinks that Joey would pardon his own son. But I have never bothered keeping up with the laptop stuff since with so much scrunity, ima sure something would have come up. He has other ongoing issues in court though that I don't hear him whining about.

3. Trump was directly quoted when referring to a rally of white Supremacists and counterprotestors that "there were very fine people on both sides."
that's a fact, not an opinion.

do better, sir..

That link the OP supplied was pretty interesting. They noted that the data source was from liberal western countries. A few of the excluded ones are goverment apparatus mouthpieces.

[cc314]

More information...

Sometimes an opinion piece isn't labelled as such. So, even if the source, in general, is a good one, see what you can find out about the author. Individual authors can also lean left or right and be more or less credible.

Another possible thing to look for is retractions. If a source never posts retractions, I wouldn't interpret that as them never being wrong.

[cc314]

I found a conservative-leaning, well-rated web site, https://thedispatch.com/

Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTERFactual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

They are even okay with fact-checking, https://thedispatch.com/category/fact-check/

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by cc314

This place is okay, https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
You chart shows left, right, and middle sites. You can click a name for more detail. You can also search sites, but you need to sign up. I haven't done that.

On allsides.com, there's only one widely followed news media outlet that's rated "center," the Wall Street Journal. Most of the rest, being ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and USA Today fall into the "lean left" or "left" category. Fox News is rated "right."

OAN, Newsmax, the Washington Examiner and the New York Post are not widely followed.

Yes, the mainstream media has a strong left-of-center bias.