Is Rachel Maddow sincere?

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79. foxnews is different in at least 2 respects:

first, they claim to be news when in fact it's topical op/ed.
second, they overtly lie, such as repeatedly identifying republicans involved in scandals as democrats.


maddow doesn't claim to be news, she claims to be topical op/ed, which is what foxnews is (with overt lies thrown in). when doing op/ed, you select the points that advocate for your position, and leave it to the opposition op/eds to bring up the points that advocate for theirs.

personally, i think that if use of the 23% figure is biased to overstate the problem, then the 5% figure is biased to understate it. i agree that not all of the 23% is curable or attributable to things that society can or would want to cure; yes, at the end of the day, women do tend to opt to be more involved in child-rearing and for those who do, in some cases, their pay may legitimately suffer for it.

but if to whatever extent the 18% does have areas that society could or should address, then the 5% figure ignores them and is therefore biased in the other direction.