Why does the "Media Bias Fact Checker" - Bot gets downvoted so much lately?

Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 284 points –

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It's getting it's info from Media Bias Fact Check so explain to me how their method is wrong? You prefer All Sides. Or Ad Fontes Media? Both of which also say leaning left.

Who cares where it's getting its info from? The methodology is crap and I don't need a bot or self-appointed gatekeeping organization telling me which something is biased. It's not that the bias isn't there, but I'd rather decide it for myself.

Ah so you have a methodology, which is experience based, uses your individual knowledge? Can you explain how you judge political bias, so others can use it?

I applaud your interest in self-reliance, but how do you determined you are not being manipulated by either side?

CNN isn't left by any stretch. It's corporate friendly that pays lip service to some liberal culture war issues.

In general I don't disagree that CNN a corporation which has a fiduciary bias to it's peers in the news it promotes. That is a bias of corporate person hood.

Many other issues there, but I'm curious on a spectrum in the US and in comparison to other similar organization in the US, how you would place CNN? Right leaning? Center? Far right?

The point being made is that "where does it sit on the current US political spectrum" doesn't matter. Why should I care is CNN sits slightly left or right of the current American Overton window? Why is a news organisation more credible if one guy judges it to be in the centre of that window? How does Judging the BBC or NHK based on where they would sit if they were American do anything other than cement the ridiculous idea that the current US status-quo is an inviolable constant of the universe?