Information Sources

[donttread]

Is what I am reading an honest attempt at accuracy? Can the source of the information be trusted? Is the source biased? Who pays for the source of the information? For what purpose is the information provided? If the source is politically biased can the information still be trusted? What about information paid for by corporate and/or wealthy supporters? Are counterpoints allowed on the site? What do investigative journalism and fact finding sites have to say about the source and its information?

As we enter another election season disinformation will cloud the mediasphere. One will read the [???] are behind whatever item the 'dark money' and 501c3 entities deem divisive enough to promote as news or agitprop. The purpose of these funded sites will be to distract, distort, and confuse. And like advertising it be tested and repeated ad infinitum. Below are examples of some of these sites and benefactors. Comments welcome from all.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-gateway-pundit/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-blaze/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/breitbart/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-caller/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/drudge-report/

Dark money example:

"The Federalist Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Top dollar funding mostly comes from right wing groups such as the Bradley Group and the Koch Foundation. In general, most donors come from the pro-business right."

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/2019/...alist-society/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=extreme+right+sites

Source info:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.ph...C_Corporations

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing." Philip K. Dick

Perception has gone from 90% of reality to 99% for the reasons you discuss. We are constantly being managed. Look how easily they have divided us in two on virtually every issue and event. While they pull the puppet strings for their own benefit and to forward their agendas and plans. There is always an issue behind the issue being discussed.
So what is real? Well it appears for many "real" is what they tell us it is.

[carolina73]

Much of what fact checkers are going on about are not facts at all. We have covered this before. Why bring it back up?

Because he needs these bogus fact-checkers to use his bogus facts.
His favorite mediabiasfactcheck is basically the opinion of one liberal Dave M. Van Zandt. He now has a couple of kids working for him as volunteers but he okays the ratings himself. He was a liberal lawyer and college administrator at Northwestern in Chicago.

In other words, all you get there is another opinion from a liberal progressive.

[midcan5]

This is a brilliant book as it covers the complexity of politics today throughout the world and does so in detail with numerous references. Not for the lazy thinker or the deep partisans.

'Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian-Populism'

Chapter 10 Trump’s America

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[countryboy]

This is a brilliant book as it covers the complexity of politics today throughout the world and does so in detail with numerous references. Not for the lazy thinker or the deep partisans.

'Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian-Populism'

Chapter 10 Trump’s America

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Ah, so you haven't read it. Why recommend it?

[LWW]

So you think facts are biased? That interesting, can you give an example of a biased fact?

"Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts." Rebecca Solnit

That isn't what he said at all.

The fallacy behind your posts is that in the OP they include the DRUDGE REPORT which merely pulls stories together ... most of which is from leftist news sources.