Re: [Phys-L] media trustworthiness, or lack thereof (was VSL)

["Marx, David" <dtmarx@ilstu.edu>]

The lengthy  story in Time magazine this week about the conspiracy to steal the election is to boast about it.  The major media lacks credibility when it creates and spreads false narratives for political gain.  With 97% negative reporting on Trump when most of that was untrue or not deserved is heinous.  They refused to report his administrations historic accomplishments.   People that only watch mainstream media were subject to mass brainwashing that resulted in the worst Presidential candidate being elected.  The effects of that will be disastrous.

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Subject: Re: [Phys-L] media trustworthiness, or lack thereof (was VSL)

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"Any legit story will be carried by
reputable sources, so there is never any need to cite disreputable sources."

Right. Like the Hunter Biden story until Nov 3.

Zeev

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 3:11 AM John Denker via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org>
wrote:

> On 2/8/21 3:20 AM, Daniel MacIsaac via Phys-l wrote:
>
> > Epoch Times is a Far Right / Falun Gong propaganda organ, see Wikipedia
> page on it
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
>
> Yeah.
>
> More generally, my policy is to not post, forward, quote, or even "like"
> a story unless I can verify it.
>
> A good starting point is:
>   https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
>
> I shun anything with a factual score less than "high". Even if the MBFC
> score is "mostly" factual I stay away.  Any legit story will be carried by
> reputable sources, so there is never any need to cite disreputable sources.
>
> Today's case is notorious:
>   https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-epoch-times/
>
> «Overall, we rate The Epoch Times Right Biased and Questionable based on
> the publication of pseudoscience and the promotion of propaganda and
> conspiracy theories as well as numerous failed fact checks.»
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