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[-] frezik@midwest.social 16 points 2 months ago

Where do you see they fact checked Kamala harris about a sunset in Pittsburgh? I searched and couldn’t find it.

It was a hypothetical. To my knowledge, Trump didn't claim a 10,000% rise in the stock market, either.

I couldn’t find this data for NYT, but the Washington Post logged 511 misleading claims for Trump in the first 100 days of his presidency and 78 for Biden over the same time period.

Tallies like this are exactly the problem. What was the substance of those lies?

The job of independent media is to be honest and truthful.

Hunter S Thompson disagrees with you. From his obituary on Nixon, titled "He was a crook":

"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful."

this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2024
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