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No Diversity Here: Officially Recognized 'Fact-Checkers' All Lean Left
Newsbusters ^ | April 13, 2017 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 04/13/2017 4:09:57 PM PDT by kevcol

Further, these "fact checkers" have taken advantage of their platforms to select and evaluate politicians' and pundits' claims in a decidedly unfair and unbalanced manner. Finally, thanks to the willing cooperation of the world's dominant search engine and the leader in social media, "fact checkers" are transitioning into roles which could ultimately position them as de facto news censors.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Reference; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: factchecking; mediabias; msm; politifact

1 posted on 04/13/2017 4:09:57 PM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Jeans in freezer ... liberals be cold when trying to find warm


2 posted on 04/13/2017 4:13:18 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (If America Cared would a moslem cair?)
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To: kevcol

Where is Free Republic?

Off the page?


3 posted on 04/13/2017 4:15:04 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
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To: kevcol

These groups are just another tool in the Leftist tool bag. They need to be called out for exactly what they are.


4 posted on 04/13/2017 4:18:23 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: kevcol

Fox News is too far to the right in that graphic. Slightly right of center is really all they’re good for.


5 posted on 04/13/2017 4:38:43 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: no-to-illegals
No Diversity Here: Officially Recognized 'Fact-Checkers' All Lean Left

That's because reality leans left, and least for the MSM.

Any time reality doesn't lean left, they dismiss it.

They do this with labels and excuses, and if those don't work, with threats and violence.

And if those don't work, with cattle cars and barbed wire.

6 posted on 04/13/2017 5:03:13 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: kevcol

This is called censorship.


7 posted on 04/13/2017 5:06:29 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: Eddie01
Where is Free Republic?
Off the page?

Although Free Republic has never represented itself as a news source, over the last 18 years, it has been de facto exactly that, a few times.

9-11 2001 and identifying al Qaeda come to mind.

8 posted on 04/13/2017 9:14:40 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: kevcol
I have been planning to find how to access Sharyl Attkisson's web site and TV gig wherever that is.
This is a good reminder.
Sharyl is a relentless thoroughly professional impartial investigative reporter/journalist.

The best contemporary one I have found.

I finally got myself a new, very fast Widows 10 laptop, and I have my fingers crossed.

Wish me luck.

9 posted on 04/13/2017 9:22:26 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: publius911

I’ve always thought of Free Republic as the defacto historical record of the United States of America.

If you want to know what happened and what it really meant, this is the gold source.


10 posted on 04/14/2017 6:44:15 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
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To: publius911

I’ve always thought of Free Republic as the defacto historical record of the United States of America.

If you want to know what happened and what it really meant, this is the gold source.


11 posted on 04/14/2017 6:44:20 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
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