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Several days ago I came under escalating attack after using Media Bias Fact Check to rate two sources.
Accusations included:
1. Using results as evidence does not establish credibility.
2. Anyone can start a blog to rate media bias.
3. Has the rating service rated itself?
4. Trekker considers the rating service Progressive and down the middle.
5. Trekker automatically disregards the source if the rating service rates the source Right Wing.
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My answers fell on deaf ears -
I used the rating service to rate Fox News, MSNBC and CNN as examples. My critics disregarded my response and the accompanying results as an inadequate and non-credible barometer of "lean".
My critics disregarded my statement that lean becomes one more factor in my assessments when attempting to conjecture, opine, analyze and arrive at a cognitive conclusion.
Fake news and Filter Bubbles have become today's norm. How many of you feel you can anticipate the tone and gist of a response based on someone's political affiliation?
Resources for Fact-Checking & Researching Controversial Topics - Evaluating & Fact-Checking Sources - Research Guides at Stetson University
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/02/20/fake-news-allsides-filter-bubbles-john-gable/
Discussing bias, is subject to... well... bias.
If a person agrees with a conclusion, then they probably don't see any bias even if it exists. If a person disagrees with a conclusion, then they are likely to see bias, even if none exists.
This is a debate site, don't take it personal if people don't agree with you, or comment negatively on your conclusions, or disagree with the conclusions of the evidence you present.
If someone attacks you personally, rather than your post's content (which it sounds like from your post above is what seemed to happen), then report them and I guarantee you the staff will deal with it.
Several days ago I came under escalating attack after using Media Bias Fact Check to rate two sources.
Accusations included:
1. Using results as evidence does not establish credibility.
2. Anyone can start a blog to rate media bias.
3. Has the rating service rated itself?
4. Trekker considers the rating service Progressive and down the middle.
5. Trekker automatically disregards the source if the rating service rates the source Right Wing.
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My answers fell on deaf ears -
I used the rating service to rate Fox News, MSNBC and CNN as examples. My critics disregarded my response and the accompanying results as an inadequate and non-credible barometer of "lean".
My critics disregarded my statement that lean becomes one more factor in my assessments when attempting to conjecture, opine, analyze and arrive at a cognitive conclusion.
Fake news and Filter Bubbles have become today's norm. How many of you feel you can anticipate the tone and gist of a response based on someone's political affiliation?
Resources for Fact-Checking & Researching Controversial Topics - Evaluating & Fact-Checking Sources - Research Guides at Stetson University
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/02/20/fake-news-allsides-filter-bubbles-john-gable/
A couple of related observations.
- One of the fact checking organizations listed in your first link was FactCheck.org.
A while back I looked at one of their efforts to fact check something Carly Fiorina said about the Clinton Foundation.
They rated it False and to do that they accepted what the Clinton Foundation reported as facts.
In general, FactCheck will take a complicated question and narrow it down to a component they can declare to be true or false and their criteria too often looks like it depends on who made the claim and about whom it was made.
- Another observation is something I mentioned on a post earlier today and it's unmistakable and inarguable.
Returned search engine hits.
Do a search for Susan Rice using Google and do the same search using Bing.
Thanks. I try to wear my Big Boy Pants when posting. Maybe as one still too Noob to Know, I have not flagged anyone yet.
On a left to right spectrum of dim-witted to Bright I consider you clearly Right of Center.
Discussing bias, is subject to... well... bias.
If a person agrees with a conclusion, then they probably don't see any bias even if it exists. If a person disagrees with a conclusion, then they are likely to see bias, even if none exists.
This is a debate site, don't take it personal if people don't agree with you, or comment negatively on your conclusions, or disagree with the conclusions of the evidence you present.
If someone attacks you personally, rather than your post's content (which it sounds like from your post above is what seemed to happen), then report them and I guarantee you the staff will deal with it.
Several days ago I came under escalating attack after using Media Bias Fact Check to rate two sources.
Accusations included:
1. Using results as evidence does not establish credibility.
2. Anyone can start a blog to rate media bias.
3. Has the rating service rated itself?
4. Trekker considers the rating service Progressive and down the middle.
5. Trekker automatically disregards the source if the rating service rates the source Right Wing.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My answers fell on deaf ears -
I used the rating service to rate Fox News, MSNBC and CNN as examples. My critics disregarded my response and the accompanying results as an inadequate and non-credible barometer of "lean".
My critics disregarded my statement that lean becomes one more factor in my assessments when attempting to conjecture, opine, analyze and arrive at a cognitive conclusion.
Fake news and Filter Bubbles have become today's norm. How many of you feel you can anticipate the tone and gist of a response based on someone's political affiliation?
Resources for Fact-Checking & Researching Controversial Topics - Evaluating & Fact-Checking Sources - Research Guides at Stetson University
https://onlinejournalismblog.com/2017/02/20/fake-news-allsides-filter-bubbles-john-gable/
Thanks. I try to wear my Big Boy Pants when posting. Maybe as one still too Noob to Know, I have not flagged anyone yet.
On a left to right spectrum of dim-witted to Bright I consider you clearly Right of Center.
A couple of related observations.
- One of the fact checking organizations listed in your first link was FactCheck.org.
A while back I looked at one of their efforts to fact check something Carly Fiorina said about the Clinton Foundation.
They rated it False and to do that they accepted what the Clinton Foundation reported as facts.
In general, FactCheck will take a complicated question and narrow it down to a component they can declare to be true or false and their criteria too often looks like it depends on who made the claim and about whom it was made.
- Another observation is something I mentioned on a post earlier today and it's unmistakable and inarguable.
Returned search engine hits.
Do a search for Susan Rice using Google and do the same search using Bing.
Fact Check is a Democrat Party tool.
Is that like using a bathroom scale to calculate speed?
Your question left me puzzled. I can't think of anyone who would use a bathroom scale to calculate speed.
Wearing Big Boy pants means not running to Momma. On a left to right spectrum of dim-witted to Bright, Far Left implies really dumb. Far Right implies really Bright.
Fact Check is a Democrat Party tool.
Facts to get in the way of the right-wing mythology don't they
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