Why are Americans are so Dumb?

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Did you read the article?

Yes. It makes claims that are dubious, at best. Here's the UPenn website showing that he did, indeed, have a professorship there:

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/fac...eph-r-biden-jr

And the claims from Tara Reade; laughable. She's been shown to be a serial liar, not at all credible.

But continue living in you fantasy world...

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Here

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/joe-b...rust-reporting

Interesting article. Puff his resume, Biden does. Oh the humanity.

Compared it to the blatant destruction of the truth by Trump about every time he opens his mouth, it is less than small cheese, of course. If this is your example of how the left is full of big liars like the right, no score.

The (democratic) soc ialists of 'The Jacobin' do love to get off some shots at the liberals and the corporate media (that, like the right, they are pleased to call 'mainstream,'). It's recognized that they do walk their talk as far as factual reporting goes, which if course is only so far, in an opinion journal.

[FordGT90]

We are living in a post-truth era, you know.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by FordGT90

We are living in a post-truth world, you know.

If only it was a post-fashionable-cynicism world.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by FordGT90

We are living in a post-truth era, you know.

Idiot Trumpkins certainly are. Those of us who make a daily habit of reading real, fact-based, verifiable reporting by real journalists know exactly what is and isn't true.

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by FordGT90

We are living in a post-truth era, you know.

You are correct on that point.

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Idiot Trumpkins certainly are. Those of us who make a daily habit of reading real, fact-based, verifiable reporting by real journalists know exactly what is and isn't true.

Who are your fact based verifiable news sources? Just curious who you read or listen to.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Who are your fact based verifiable news sources? Just curious who you read or listen to.

It's really quite simple. Anything within the green box here, at least on the news side.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/

For the best opinions, the (honest) right-leaning pundits are generally better than left-leaning. George F Will (who left Faux "News" in disgust), Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot at WaPo, David Brooks at the NYT. The Atlantic Magazine is run by a former GW Bush speechwriter, IIRC. All good, honest pundits. WSJ's opinion side is a mess, and has been repeatedly called out by its very accurate news side, but still a cesspool, sadly. It IS owned by the same despot family that owns Faux "News", after all.

Slightly to the left, historian Heather Cox Richardson is one of the best informed, best written pundits around. She does what she does without compensation, for the love of democracy.

You won't find ANY honest opinion at Faux, Breitbart, etc, and YooToob is a cesspool of mostly nonsense trolling for hit$.

[FordGT90]

I completely disagree with that site. CNN has tons of omission bias. Vox and Huffington Post are way too far left. The Hill has serious problems with facts, especially after what happened with John Solomon. NPR is leftist.

The only thing they got right is putting AP and Reuters as the best, because they are.

[RickeyM]

A question just popped up in my noodle. This "media bias", is it a result of the political climate we are in or a cause of that political climate? When did it begin to become this way. Or is this so-called "bias" the result of something else entirely?

On a separate question, WTF is a "leftist"?