On 11/13/2017 4:47 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:56:35 -0700, casa chevrolet >
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/13/2017 2:31 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:05:46 -0700, casa chevrolet >
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On 11/13/2017 1:53 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:09:31 -0700, casa chevrolet >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>> snip
>>>>> Knock off the name calling. You are becoming very tiresome
>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When attacked I tend to punch back just a measure or three harder, a
>>>> time tested and efficacious strategy.
>>>>
>>>> Lucrezia, as many know, is far from my favorite poster here.
>>>
>>> How laudable -- just like the ahole in the wh. she doesn't have to be
>>> to warrant courtesy.
>>> Janet US
>>>
>>
>> Trump has been courteous to everyone so far (I mean Chuck and Nancy got
>> totally schmoozed), save for Fat Kim!
>>
>> That's got to be a real pea under the saddle for the left, but facts is
>> facts.
>>
>> Like I said my return ratio is 3:1.
>>
>> Hard to change what has almost always been effective.
>>
> that's it, you're outta here. I didn't know you were a fake news
> proponent.
> Janet US
>

Almost ALL news now is "fake news".

This media cannot be trusted to do anything even approximating what
Deutsche Welle or the BBC produce.

The best bets right now domestically, for those who care, are Reuters
and the AP wire.

NPR is mostly trustworthy, likewise the Christian Science Monitor.

An older but revealing study on the matter:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Me...64?RelNum=6664

"Groseclose and Milyo based their research on a standard gauge of a
lawmaker's support for liberal causes. Americans for Democratic Action
(ADA) tracks the percentage of times that each lawmaker votes on the
liberal side of an issue. Based on these votes, the ADA assigns a
numerical score to each lawmaker, where "100" is the most liberal and
"0" is the most conservative. After adjustments to compensate for
disproportionate representation that the Senate gives to low€‘population
states and the lack of representation for the District of Columbia, the
average ADA score in Congress (50.1) was assumed to represent the
political position of the average U.S.voter.

Groseclose and Milyo then directed 21 research assistants €” most of them
college students €” to scour U.S. media coverage of the past 10 years.
They tallied the number of times each media outlet referred to think
tanks and policy groups, such as the left-leaning NAACP or the
right-leaning Heritage Foundation.

The most centrist outlet proved to be the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer."
CNN's "News Night With Aaron Brown" and ABC's "Good Morning America"
were a close second and third.

"Our estimates for these outlets, we feel, give particular credibility
to our efforts, as three of the four moderators for the 2004
presidential and vice-presidential debates came from these three news
outlets €” Jim Lehrer, CharlieGibson and Gwen Ifill," Groseclose said.
"If these newscasters weren't centrist, staffers for one of the campaign
teams would have objected and insisted on other moderators."

The fourth most centrist outlet was "Special Report With Brit Hume" on
Fox News, which often is cited by liberals as an egregious example of a
right-wing outlet. While this news program proved to be right of center,
the study found ABC's "World News Tonight" and NBC's "Nightly News" to
be left of center. All three outlets were approximately equidistant from
the center, the report found.

"If viewers spent an equal amount of time watching Fox's 'Special
Report' as ABC's'World News' and NBC's 'Nightly News,' then they would
receive a nearly perfectly balanced version of the news," said Milyo, an
associate professor of economics and public affairs at the University of
Missouri at Columbia.

Five news outlets €” "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," ABC's"Good Morning
America," CNN's "News Night With Aaron Brown," Fox News' "Special Report
With Brit Hume" and the Drudge Report €” were in a statistical dead heat
in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA
Today was the most centrist.

An additional feature of the study shows how each outlet compares in
political orientation with actual lawmakers. The news pages of The Wall
Street Journal scored a little to the left of the average American
Democrat, as determined by the average ADA score of all Democrats in
Congress (85 versus 84). With scores in the mid-70s, CBS' "Evening News"
and The New York Times looked similar to Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.,
who has an ADA score of 74."



I wonder how many of those resources you consume on a daily basis?

I generally trace a given story across half a dozen before I'm done.

Trusting the swill that comes out of any of major broadcast networks is
like believing the dreck that infests Foolsbook - which is where
millenials mainly get their indoctrination sermons.

Ya, you'd best *plonk* me for being willing to turn over a whole lot of
stones to get to what at least looks like the cross-referenced truth.