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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/press-tv/
Fuck that source. I'll find the information printed somewhere else.
(This is in response to my own deleted comment)
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/about/
Dave Van Zandt is a registered Non-Affiliated voter who values evidence-based reporting. Since High School (a long time ago), Dave has been interested in politics and noticed as a kid the same newspaper report in two different papers was very different in their tone. This curiosity led him to pursue a Communications Degree in college; however, like most 20-year-olds, he didn’t know what he wanted and changed to a Physiology major midstream. Dave has worked in the healthcare industry (Occupational Rehabilitation) since graduating from college but never lost the desire to learn more about bias and its impacts.
The combination of being fascinated by politics, a keen eye to spot bias before he even knew what it was called, and an education/career in science gave Dave the tools required for understanding Media Bias and its implications. This led to a 20-year journey where Dave would read anything and everything he could find on media bias and linguistics. He also employed the scientific method to develop a methodology to support his assessments.
After years of people telling him to launch a website, in late 2015, Mediabiasfactcheck.com was born from a combination of many different experiences and exhaustive research. For the last 9 years, Dave and his team have refined their methods and improved their reviews to the point where the website receives consistently high traffic levels and is considered a top authority in rating media bias and credibility.
You are trusting the opinions of a physical therapist who identifies as a "Non-Affiliated" voter, I'm not saying you have to like PressTV, it is perfectly valid to not trust their reporting if you have reasons not to, but I think you can determine whether you trust it on your own, instead of relying on this "Non-Affiliated" loser to inform your opinions.
Don't need a degree to be a critical thinker and practice good journalism. However, evidence is mounting that MBFC may not actually be unbiased or fair. Shame, as I use it as a heuristic for unfamiliar sources.
I'm only pointing out he's trained as a physical therapist to highlight that he is not trained in a field relevant to this whatsoever, you can be a critical thinker without being a journalist or going to college, but this person just decided they would be the arbiter of what media bias was in the 2016 US election and has just run with it. Most people do not realize this is just some guy's opinions, if it was named "David Van Zandt's blog on media bias" people would probably trust it less than naming it "MediaBiasFactCheck" which makes it sound like it's not just the opinions of one random dude.
I always thought the ratings were based on a community or a team of people deciding based on hard criteria. Shame..
Yeah, I think it's very deceptive in how it markets itself. I think the only reason you see it so much in sites like lemmy and reddit is it went viral during the 2016 US election, where discussions of "fake news" and media bias really took off for the first time and people have just been trusting it ever since.
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I’ve taken Van Zandt to task before:
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I try to point people toward developing real media literacy: https://lemmy.ml/comment/12094932
This reply is not meant to be an attack on you or your article. Just additional relevant information to consider.