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[WSJ editorial] The Constant Spin Zone

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Dec 27, 2018.

  1. Sweet Lou 4 2

    Sweet Lou 4 2 Member

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    It's funny how reporting the facts has now become an attack on Trump.
     
  2. MojoMan

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    They might be too advanced for some posters in this forum, however.
     
  3. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Seems like you are becoming more self aware there.
     
  4. Hustle Town

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    Do you think Fox News treated Obama with disdain? It's the same thing here. There really has been no effort made to reduce bias because it sells newspapers, such as to partisans like yourself.
     
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    Not the same thing, not by a mile. Facts are not bias my friend.
     
  6. Hustle Town

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    I don’t know why I wasted my time here talking to New Yorker.
     
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  7. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Well, I wouldn't call your posts a conversation so I don't think you wasted your time doing that.

    But back on topic, it's interesting that you feel Fox expressing anti-Obama OPINIONS is the same as CBS reporting unflattering FACTS about Trump.
     
  8. biff17

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    yes they did.

    remember the terrorist fist bump.
     
  9. Aleron

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    The way the narrative blender works is to take separate facts, and throw them together in a way that implies motive, and tends to pray on people's high level of confidence in their mind reading ability combined with their low level of said ability. At its base, it's just a giant crapfest of trying to make correlation mean causation, where A and B true, i want you to believe that A leads to B.

    Don't believe me? allow me to take 3 separate factual statements that aren't really correlated and throw them through a blender as if they are.

    These are the 3 facts

    1) Israel has a border wall that is 99.9% effective at preventing illegal immigrants - factually true
    2) Those immigrants are african - factually true
    3) A lot of americans don't believe a border wall will work to stop illegal immigrants - factually true

    And now the blender

    Israel's border wall that is 99.9% effective at preventing illegal immigration, however many in America don't believe such a solution would work for them, as Israel's immigrant issue was Africans.

    That sentence is written to make an implication about the motivation of the American people described, however there is nothing factually untrue about the statement, it's simply those 3 facts arranged into a sentence, and while I did this deliberately to illustrate a point, my defense is simple as demonstrated in this thread, ergo "they're just the facts, why do you hate facts?"
     

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