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| Jan 31, 2020 at 15:14 | history | edited | Mithridates the Great | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2019 at 20:17 | comment | added | eclipz905 | @Davidmh e.g. The Washington Times | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 14:13 | comment | added | Davidmh | Only a minor thing to watch out: there are many newspapers following the structure "The [place] Post", or "The [place] Times". One could easily set up The Chicago Post, give it a respectable-looking font, and publish utter crap riding the reputation of others. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 10:07 | comment | added | Lucas Morin | Not sure your Bloomberg example holds as Google just discovered a similar supply chain exploit in android phone manufacturing : forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/10/… | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 0:18 | comment | added | bta | +1 for mentioning the oft-overlooked problem: the lack of clear delineation between news and commentary/opinion. People are having an increasingly difficult time differentiating between the two. | |
| S Aug 12, 2019 at 19:48 | history | suggested | interfect | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The Chicago Tribune is a newspaper; I've never heard of the Chicago Tribute.
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| Aug 12, 2019 at 19:32 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | @Shadow1024: I didn't follow that story in the slightest (it's what we euphemistically call "faits divers" in French, which you could loosely translate as pointless asides), so I've honestly no idea of what to make of it. In the event you only read references to the WP articles though, it's worth pointing out that a judge seems to have dismissed a libel lawsuit against the WP. Presumably other news outlets played a major role in spinning the story out of proportion. See rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/… | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 18:17 | comment | added | Shadow1024 | After recent reporting disaster concerning Covington Kids, I have a mixed feelings whether Washington Post should be listed as respectable source. They were pushing a fake news first, had they been correct, the incident would have still a tabloid level importance, and finally even when confronted with video recording, needed a few more days to actually retract their wild claims a bit. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 18:02 | comment | added | hszmv | @bvoyelr AllSides.org is a good site to do this comparison as they will often put the same story in side by side comparisons with a left, right, and center sources article discussing the same event. That said, some of the political leans of their sources might not be ideally rated as depending on where you fall on the political spectrum, a lot of center rated sources are... not... and much of the ratings are out of date. Not that you should use a purely central work as understanding another point of view is important. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | origimbo | @bvoyelr Although particularly for ongoing stories those repeated statements can sometimes be the result of either quoting the same agency original, or of "circular reporting", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting. In an ideal world, everyone cites their sources. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 13:46 | comment | added | bvoyelr | One thing I'd add is that you'll benefit greatly while cross referencing news coverage is to pick ideologically opposed sources, otherwise you may fall victim to information laundering. Yes, there should be no bias in the news section, but it's a sad fact that reading a news story from NYT and the same from Fox News will leave you with two impressions of the event. There will, however, be facts in common. Therein, more often than not, lay the truth. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 10:04 | comment | added | Thorkil Værge | Good answer. But I would like to add another source of bias: Which news the news agency actually choose to cover: Do they for example spend more time covering violent crimes or financial crimes related to tax evasion or money laundering; do they cover the ethnicity of violent perpetrators when reporting on crime stories, or do they consider that irrelevant? | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 19:52 | history | answered | Denis de Bernardy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |