Link Me Up, Scotty - Just the Facts Ma'am

Thursday, July 6, 2017

GRAIN OF SALT WARNING: Slate is considered a left-bias media source. However, the piece featured below is an opinion column, and should be read as such.

Slate's erudite and highly intelligent Supreme Court correspondent Dahlia Lithwick has some advice for the White House Press Corps. The money quote:
"...if the White House doesn’t want to talk to the public anymore, maybe the public should stop covering the show; it’s long since been established that nothing that happens at a press briefing is either interesting or true. Instead, the press corps should redouble its efforts to cover the White House as an institution rather than a sorry accretion of unstable personalities. The best curative for fake news, it seems to me, is to avoid engaging with fake people."
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer considers the United States a "friend" to Germany. Fellow Americans, this is what irrelevancy tastes like.
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Disembarking from Air Force One, 45 appears to have missed the Presidential Limo waiting for him at the bottom of the ramp and wondered away in search of his ride. No snark here. This isn't at all funny, it's just scary as shit with a side of compassion.
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Why both sides of the aisle are full of shit when it comes to political discourse and how CNN's doxing of that trolling jerkwad who made the "Trump vs CNN" video is a disproportional response.

Um, yes. As with dark magic, constant vigilance is required to avoid hypocrisy.
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Today's sources as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check
  • Slate: An English-language online current affairs, politics and culture magazine in the United States that trends towards a liberal viewpoint through story choices and wording. Slate tends to source to credible information, but uses rather sensationalized headlines to increase clicks.
  • The Independent: A British online newspaper. Established in 1986 as an independent national morning newspaper published in London, it was controlled by Tony O’Reilly’s Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev in 2010. Since March 2016, it is no longer printed, but is available for readers online. The Independent tends to take a classical liberal, pro-market stance on economic issues. Has a left of center editorial stance.
  • Washington Journal: An American television series on the C-SPAN network in the format of a political call-in and interview program. The program features elected officials, government administrators and journalists as guests, answering questions from the hosts and from members of the general public, who call into the studio or submit questions via e-mail and social media. The Washington Journal is very careful to screen calls to ensure that all sides of the political spectrum are being represented. Their panel also consists of journalists who represent both left and right. Overall, Washington Journal is low biased. In reviewing their website content it appears that there is a very slight left leaning bias toward stories that favor the left. This however, is not enough to move this source. Washington Journal is least biased. 
  • Popehat. A group blog about whatever its authors want. Often its authors want to talk about free speech, liberty, criminal justice, the legal system and its foibles, and related issues. But Popehat isn't a law blog, and what you read there isn't legal advice. 

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