COVID-19

[240260280]

 

[Pilgrim]

You might want to check the reputation of the Epoch Times. Not pretty.

[siteunseen]

On 6/9/2021 at 9:02 AM, Racer X said:

Question everything.

 

Or seize their private communications. 

[Zed Head]

On 6/7/2021 at 7:38 PM, Captain Obvious said:

That's why I posted that media bias chart earlier. There needs to be news. But get your news from the top tier news organizations. Not facebook or some guy posting memes on the internet.

 

 

 

I think I asked this the first time it was posted.  Where did this graphic come from?  Anybody notice that, like, 2/3 of the news outlets are left of middle?  Suggests that the person who put the graphic together sees the middle as to the right.

Just an observation.  I don't even see The Epoch Times on it.  Off the chart.

[Zed Head]

Washington state's risk level just went up, according to COVIDActNow.  It's the game, say it's over too soon and people start taking more risk.  Hope we get it knocked way down over the summer.  South America is suffering, I think, because it's winter down there, among other issues.

https://covidactnow.org/?s=1919837

 

[Captain Obvious]

Epoch Times is on the chart... Look way down in the lower right hand corner. On the political left-to-right scale it's in the "Hyper-Partisan Right" section. And on the reliability scale, it's in the "Contains Misleading Info" section.

Interesting to note that they weren't that bad off a couple years ago. In previous versions of the chart, they were closer to the middle and considered more reliable. But then there's now. Now they are actually rated worse than OAN and Newsmax and one small notch above Infowars and the National Enquirer.

I gotta give National Enquirer a shout-out though... they're close to the middle. It's all unreliable garbage, but at least it's not hyper-partisan garbage!

The original chart came from here>> https://www.adfontesmedia.com/

 

 

[Captain Obvious]

Here's another media bias chart, but I don't like it as much as the other one. Why? Because it makes no distinction as to the reliability of the source, just the political lean. The other chart above produces the bell curve by rating both reliability AND political leaning and I think it provides a much better "at-a-glance" view of the situation.

I also don't like the fact that this chart it's a mish-mash mix of "opinion" and "news" sources. For example... Fox News Opinion (oxymoron) is listed as far right as you can go, while Fox News "news only" is still listed as right leaning, but not as much. That's fine and all makes sense to me. My issue is that they have CNN listed as "on-line news opinion only" (another oxymoron) and it's in the leftmost column. So is that CNN's opinion category, or CNN's news category? It's not split up like Fox is. Same with MSNBC.

Other's make perfect sense, like Wall Street Journal". Their news section is in the middle, while their opinion section leans right. I get it. But they should provide the same treatment to all the media outlets and many of them they didn't separate the news and opinion.

But anyway, here's another chart with all my (clearly my opinion) caveats:

That one came from here >> https://www.allsides.com/blog/new-allsides-media-bias-chart-announcing-version-4

Edited June 11, 2021 by Captain Obvious
formatting was all kinds of screwed up. No idea why.

[Captain Obvious]

So I also understand that this whole thing is like trying to "prove reality".

What is reality, and how do you prove it? It's philosophy. For all you know, you are currently in a coma laying in a hospital right now and this is all a dream. You had a bad car accident six months ago and none of this is real. You might wake up tomorrow and find that all of this has been a dream. You really just can't prove it.

So I guess I'm just trying to attach some kind of objective guide to a subjective life because that's all I got.

If I don't know what to believe or who to trust, my conservative nature turns me to the long standing big names in media that have a long standing reputation and skin in the game. If a couple big names in media all say the same thing, then I give it credence. And if a situation gets beyond that, the courts decide.

All the new on-line sources that have been around for just a couple years. With patriotic sounding names. Not going there. Either side leaning.

So you might call me a sheeple, right? Following the old-school establishment?

While others are being lured off to the side by someone whispering sweet nothings in their ear... "follow me... everyone else is fake."

So I gotta ask... Who's the sheeple?

[240260280]

I think that pyramid chart is skewed... the centre should be the left side lol. BBC and NPR have gone that way long ago.... CBC is a cesspool.

 

 

[siteunseen]

They figured out how to get Alabamians to vaccinate. No spectators again this fall if the data doesn't improve. Phones are ringing off the hook at my pharmacy and other locations to get in. Priorities people, Alabama's #1.

 

Edited June 13, 2021 by siteunseen

[Zed Head]

On 6/11/2021 at 7:16 AM, Captain Obvious said:

That one came from here >> https://www.allsides.com/blog/new-allsides-media-bias-chart-announcing-version-4

That site only evaluates online written content, apparently.  So the "shock jock" personalities wouldn't be included.  Rush Limbaugh, for instance.  And the videos and interviews that the networks show wouldn't be included either.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings

We provide separate bias ratings for news and editorial/opinion content for a number of outlets. Unless otherwise noted, all bias ratings are based on online, written content, not broadcast, TV, or radio content. Our ratings are fluid and subject to change over time as new information is gathered and biases change. To see the ratings in action, visit our balanced newsfeed.

[Pilgrim]

3 hours ago, siteunseen said:

They figured out how to get Alabamians to vaccinate. No spectors again this fall if the data doesn't improve. Phones are ringing off the hook at my pharmacy and other locations to get in. Priorities people, Alabama's #1.

 

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!