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This is a political statement masquerading as a wikipedia article. You should always take a single article with a grain of salt, whether they are talking about palestine, physics or show business. Entertainment reporting, even in a reputable source, generally doesn't have the same rigor applied as stories about war and politics. You didn't just "learn" something by identifying a single poor article you know a lot about. All articles should be read with some skepticism and multiple sources should be used and chosen carefully. Avoid the VOX and FOX sources and you'll probably have a pretty realistic view of world events. Also, know the difference between the opinion section (and prime-time opinion "news" shows) and the news sections (and news shows).



>Avoid the VOX and FOX sources

That's exactly the problem. Who do you like?

Because I've seen HORRIBLY inaccurate articles on guns done by BBC and NPR who routinely has Michael Bloomberg on as an "expert" in the field when he happens to be the single source of almost all gun control money in the USA right now.

There is no white whale. There are stories that Fox has absolutely gotten right. The are things Vox or Vice get right. CNN this last month refuses to acknowledge they made up a claim from an anonymous source. NYT and WaPo have run articles dangerously close to fake news and retracted them.

If you followed the 2016 election, you should be aware that there is no unbiased news. Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept article which I typically like have some extremely biased articles by the other authors. Mind boggling they're on the same site.

It extends past news as well.

Who seriously thinks it's "right" in terms of bias to have the cast of Avengers in a commercial telling me I need to vote for Clinton? There are the same people that feign protest against things like Citizen's United.

In the Wikileaks Podesta emails it was discovered that The Colbert Report as far back as 2013 was running content designed by Clinton's campaign as an intro to her running. If no one remembers the last six months of Jon Stewart's Daily Show, I'll remind you it was The Trump Show, I am under no illusion that was by someone's design as Viacom who was for Clinton.

I don't think there is a solution to "just don't listen to Vox or Fox".

"Turn on the TV, hear a bunch of what the fucks, dude is dating so and so, blabbering about such and such, and that's not Jersey Shore, homie that's the news. The same people that's supposed to be telling us the truth"




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