I enjoy her writing too. Her piece on the threat of Facebook entering the Fediverse does a great job of making the case.
This was tried in 1968. It failed, and the Democratic Party instituted superdelegates to prevent it from ever having a chance at being successful again. You can't vote your way out of capitalism.
They don't want to give up their share of rich donors and insider trading privileges.
MBFC is claiming CNN is Left-Center, when it is owned by conservative billionaire John Malone. This is an example of MBFC's intentional distortion of the political spectrum by falsely representing it as dominated by a left-wing bias.
An example of CNN's actual right-wing bias is when they put an obvious Trump Supporter on their televised panel of 'undecided voters'. According to Parker Molloy from The New Republic, this isn't "an isolated case of questionable representation in CNN’s voter panels. In fact, it appears to be part of a troubling pattern stretching back years." She suggests it could be "a potential willingness to mislead viewers for the sake of compelling television." - media ownership and their profit motive, and complicity of the media elite are sources of bias that MBFC does not adequately account for.
!politics and !world now appear to be willing to consider backing away from MBFC. The vote to "Kill" -- stop their bot from advertising MBFC in all of community posts -- appears to be leading in both communities.
If you upvote the Kill comment so that this lead becomes a landslide, you can make it even more embarrassing and difficult for them to claim 'bots' or backtrack.
ABC News is a brand of Disney Advertising. It is lead by a conservative billionaire, and is not a left-biased organization.
Fact-checking is an essential tool in fighting the waves of fake news polluting the public discourse. But if that fact-checking is partisan, then it only acerbates the problem of people divided on the basics of a shared reality. Dave Van Zandt has admitted to a US-centric bias in MBFC's ratings. It's fairly easy to notice an American conservative lean in MBFC's bias ratings, as well as their credibility ratings.
A consortium of fact-checking institutions have joined together to form the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and laid out a code of principles. You can find a list of signatories as well as vetted organizations on their website. MBFC is not a signatory to the IFCN code of principles. As a partisan organization, it violates the standards that journalists have recognized as essential to restoring trust in the veracity of the news. Partisan fact-checking sites are worse than no fact-checking at all. Just like how the proliferation of fake news undermines the authority of journalism, the growing popularity of a fact-checking site by a political hack like Dave M. Van Zandt undermines the authority of non-partisan fact-checking institutions in the public consciousness.
Please choose "Kill" -- to stop giving free advertising to MBFC on Lemmy.
For the first time in decades, The Washington Post will not endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election, the newspaper’s publisher announced Friday, a decision that sparked widespread outrage among the paper’s staffers.
“The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election,” Post publisher Will Lewis said in a statement. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
The Post reported the decision not to endorse was made by the newspaper’s billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, citing two sources briefed on the matter.
-- CNN
Media Bias Fact Check is a right-wing propaganda tool to repeat the laughable lie that the media has a left-wing bias.
PTFE and chemicals used in its production are some of the best-known and widely applied PFAS, which are persistent organic pollutants. PTFE occupies more than half of all fluoropolymer production, followed by polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF).
Great singing, coordination, and choreography.
"You know what? I'm a grad student. I've got a crappy Toyota Corolla and 50 bucks in the bank. They can shoot me in the head a billion times, and only the first bullet hurts"
-- Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang
I think David Van Zandt has a vendetta against Philip Weiss. Racists tend to be unfeeling or feel contempt for 'lesser' racial groups, and are merely indifferent to their suffering. The most intense 'hate' in hate groups comes from the intensity of feeling racists have toward other people of their own race they perceive as 'race traitors' - who demonstrate that people who share their culture and heritage can afford empathy for the 'other' whom racists believe are unworthy of concern.
Truthout is a reputable website, with good journalism and reporting. There's a number of other websites that report favorably on Palestinians, and don't toe Van Zandt's line that criticism of Israel and antisemitism are the same thing. They have higher 'Credibility' and 'Factual Reporting' scores than Truthout. But Truthout occasionally rehosts reporting from Mondoweiss, a site that Van Zandt has labelled as 'antisemitic,' and therefore Truthout must be punished for giving support to the most notorious enemy of Israel -- 'self-hating' Jews.
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A reasonable criticism. Be the change you want to see in the world.