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:Meanwhile, people like you run around here shouting Credibility! when presented with a classical case of confirmation bias. Do you think this actually helps your running series of logical fallacies? "
I don't think you know what confirmation bias is because you are using it wrong.
Its isn't confirmation bias. You clearly do not have the slightest bit of understanding that go into the ratings at all. You just know that you disagree with them so they must have a liberal bias.
"What does you media research group say about CBS and the Bush National Guard story? Does it even come up? One is hard pressed to find a worse example of media fabulism of that but for many of you it's gone down the 'ol memory hole."
Great example. It is quite telling that you had to go back 20 years for such an example of a major news media source screwing up so badly in your favor.
But what you fail to understand is it isn't that a news source makes mistakes. Every source makes at least occasional mistakes. It is how often they make mistakes and how they handle it when they realize they are making a mistake. Does an information source at least have some safeguards in place to try and make sure they minimize the mistakes they make? Also, do information sources openly correct mistakes and then stop conveying false information when they know better?
CBS did both in the forged Bush National Guard story.
Fox News doesn't do either. That is why Fox News is unreliable as an information source.
Also, the forged GWB National Guard story doesn't even make the top 10 of worst media fabulism stories of this century. Not even close. Obama being a Muslim born in Kenya was at least an order of magnitude worse than that. Or the stolen election claims in 2020 is many orders of magnitude worse (heck the media coverage of it caused thousands of fools to try and violently overthrow a legally, fair election).
Tellingly, in both of those cases, the unreliable rightwing news sources (many of which you regularly use) continued to try and highlight those stories even after they were shown to be obviously untrue. That is why they are known as unreliable news sources. They are not rated as unreliable because of how they give a rightwing perspective. They are unreliable because they regularly mislead their viewers with misinformation.
