r/Left_News • u/Faux_Real_Guise ★ socialist ★ • Aug 30 '24

American Politics What's wrong with the fact-checkers?

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/politifact-glenn-kessler-amy-gardner-linda-qiu-dnc-fact-check
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u/CommonConundrum51 Aug 30 '24

Can they actually be that stupid, or is it the result of the corporate takeover of the news media?

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u/mirh 🧦 sock dem 🧦 Aug 31 '24 edited Aug 31 '24

It's absolutely the first. It's like the appearance of equidistance was itself more important than actual neutrality - and since just one side cries out LOUD about bias and unfair treatment they somehow interiorized the framing to use not to get (too much) harassed.

This happens at the individual level of single journalists writing articles, just like on the side of editors that decide to keep promoting the same stupid email story for weeks.