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2. placing it in a chart like this makes it seem fair and balanced -- but foxnews is hugely distorts it

Reply to Morris64 (Original post)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 06:38 PM

Jan 2018

even if there were no dispute over placement of particular media outlets, it doesn't factor in size.

it's scary how many people rely on foxnews, an outlet this chart places in "nonsense damaging to public discourse", for all their fact reporting.

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Have we gone over this chart? [View all] Morris64 Jan 2018 OP

Way off. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1

placing it in a chart like this makes it seem fair and balanced -- but foxnews is hugely distorts it unblock Jan 2018 #2

These are fair points. tymorial Jan 2018 #3

Really. Fox should be an 800 lb thumb on the right side of the scale. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2018 #5

LOL. Slate to the left of Jacobin? Is this a joke? DanTex Jan 2018 #4

I wouldn't say NPR leans to the left. lpbk2713 Jan 2018 #6

Interesting chart Gothmog Jan 2018 #7

Interesting chart. I don't really agree with everything on it, particularly smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #8

looks pretty accurate. has some flaws Takket Jan 2018 #9