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The difference is they will give it a left lie twist.
I have noticed more than that difference. Of course, left leaning sources give things a liberal spin, just as right leaning sources put a right spin on their stories. The real problem is deeper.
Way too many right leaning sources do more than just spin. They start from lies and then spin things further right. Left-leaning sources generally start from facts and spin those.
That is a deep-seated problem. I have no problem giving news a bit of spin to the left or the right. But you have to start from facts.
One extremely recent case: Pretti. Right leaning sources are claiming that Pretti was there to shoot people - with the targets being ICE/CBP officers. But there is little evidence for that. If he wanted to shoot officers, he had plenty of opportunities. He was at a distance from the officers from time to time. That is when you would do your shooting, not up close and personal to a whole gaggle of officers. And you certainly wouldn't draw attention to yourself by yelling and shouting and generally making your presence known. As a shooter, you want to be overlooked, not noticed. That gives you the benefit of surprise. You shoot when the officers attention is directed elsewhere. Claiming that he was there to shoot people is not a fact. It is not spin. At best it is a poorly supported assumption.
Those right leaning sources are treating this assumed intent as fact. But it's not a fact. Sure, you could spin that as opinion, but it should not be presented as a fact.
And that's the major difference. RW media treats their hopes and dreams and suppositions as facts. LW media generally sticks to facts and puts a left spin on their reporting.
This happens all the time - and in a couple of cases, so badly as to cause Fox news to lose a huge amount of money in a lawsuit for treating their lies as facts.
If a news source can't start from facts, its not a news source. Its propaganda. It's lies.
--Peter
