Those media fact check sites come with their own heavy biases. I read their review of NYT just for laughs & it’s quite funny.
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:31 pm
by twelvefootboy
Johnblue wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:11 pm
Those media fact check sites come with their own heavy biases. I read their review of NYT just for laughs & it’s quite funny.
I found AFRET's citation (mediabiasfactcheck.com) very interesting and informative. No laughs here. I hadn't looked at a resource of this type, but I'm sure that there are plenty of agenda biased variants. I looked up several out of curiosity. I liked the way they parsed it between fact-check and presentation of same.
They had me at this (although "Questionable" seems a little soft): Overall, we rate One America News Questionable based on far-right bias, lack of sourcing, promotion of conspiracy theories, and propaganda as well as numerous failed fact checks. OAN is not a credible news source.
Re: Friday, February 19, 2021 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Johnblue wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:11 pm
Those media fact check sites come with their own heavy biases. I read their review of NYT just for laughs & it’s quite funny.
I found AFRET's citation (mediabiasfactcheck.com) very interesting and informative. No laughs here. I hadn't looked at a resource of this type, but I'm sure that there are plenty of agenda biased variants. I looked up several out of curiosity. I liked the way they parsed it between fact-check and presentation of same.
They had me at this (although "Questionable" seems a little soft): Overall, we rate One America News Questionable based on far-right bias, lack of sourcing, promotion of conspiracy theories, and propaganda as well as numerous failed fact checks. OAN is not a credible news source.
They did say Fox News (actual news) was generally reliable but got a low rating overall due to their pundit based shows. CNN had pretty much the same rating.
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:30 am
by alietr
OK, that's enough now. I reserve the right to delete anything after this post on Rep. Omar and the general topic. Yes, this is the right correct thread for it, but let's keep this civil.
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:55 pm
by Volante
mas3cf wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:23 pm
FJ was pre-empted here for news of the strike in Syria. Really, they couldn't have waited 5 minutes to tell us about the 4,624,517,416th US airstrike in the Middle East?
"Joe Biden became President today"
-- Fareed Zakaria
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:24 pm
by Volante
File this under utterly random...
Watched Captain Fantastic (released 29 Jul, 2016) and S4E6 of NetFlix's Sabrina series (31 Dec, 2020) today.
Both had covers of Sweet Child O' Mine performed in universe.
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:14 pm
by This Is Kirk!
This looks familiar...
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 8:42 am
by alietr
This was my introduction to trivia contests. I was a proud member of the Suicidal Zippers. (I don't know that 'hardest' is apt, but hey, it's journalism.)
The only time I ever hear this expression is in cartoons!
This is the one I was thinking of. It was on a public-domain VHS collection of old cartoons I had as a kid.
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:40 am
by econgator
So, I was watching Bull last night and one of the characters mentioned that Drew Brees had just retired. So, either a) they were banking on that happening and it just worked out or b) that was some massively quick ADR work as he had just retired the day before (the speaker had a mask on, so it's pretty easy to cover whatever he would actually have said).
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:28 pm
by seaborgium
Not too long ago, I realized a contestant in a "new old" J! game from 1985 was the mother of a kid I took care of at summer day camp in 2001. Tonight on Wheel of Fortune, one contestant was the dad of camp kids I remember from 2008.
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 2:29 pm
by econgator
In a nice bit of coincidence, yesterday (3/21) and baby was born up in Merritt Island at 3:21 PM. The area code there is, of course, 321.
Re: Reretaken Down
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:05 am
by MattKnowles
DBear wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:42 pm
CHESS OPENINGS
1.e4 e5 2. Ke2 is known as this attack, from the idea that one would have to be high on marijuana to play it. Spoiler
What is the Bongcloud Attack?
I decided to try this. I somehow managed to win against a higher rated opponent. He's really mad.
