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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Daily Mail is a lousy, unreliable and sensationalist source
they don't give a crap about fact checking. It's being used widely here in regard to the Tsarnaev brothers. I wish it weren't.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,744 posts)Take what they print with a grain of salt, at least.
Jeremy Almond
(26 posts)None. Not Fox News, not the New York Post. They publish crap more often than other outlets, but not always.
Individual articles should be criticized if they are crap. Good articles from generally bad sources should not be criticized.
cali
(114,904 posts)Not to mention that right wing sources are not welcome here.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)That may sound sarcastic, but I am serious. In other parts of the world, it is sometimes hard to know for certain. I wish I had an easy way to know.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)is news.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)are lies and sensationalism.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)where are the lies ?
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)a real good. But as a news source - they are as you say unreliable and sensationalist - and one might add - right wing and frequently racist.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Here is one example but there are many others.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021032740
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)positive and when you leave a comment that is pro Obama it never gets posted. I very seldom read it any more.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)Here is a thread posted by Mr Blur and some others from the UK forum in 2007. Although some of the images are no longer available, it gives the idea.
They have always been hateful toward immigrants and minority groups; but recently they have been carrying out a truly vile campaign against people on disability benefits:
http://www.daa.org.uk/index.php?mact=Blogs,cntnt01,showentry,0&cntnt01entryid=385&cntnt01returnid=98
http://www.update.org.uk/news-detail.php?page=97
In addition, they give very sensational misleading reports on science. They have been described as dividing all objects into those that cause cancer and those that cure it. They were the biggest British promoters of the 'vaccines cause autism' propaganda, and thus bear a share of the responsibility for the current measles outbreak.