Please don’t link to Fox “News” in any form.
Fox News is indeed on our list of “not-preferred” sources, although not blacklisted currently. The cocept basically started with this chart, and us determining that we’d prefer if this community didn’t constantly have posts from some of the most biased outlets out there, and really began as “we prefer if you use sources that aren’t in the furthest left and furthest right columns”, and we encourage users to only use sources from those columns if they’re unable to find the same story from a different outlet. We needed to set something up in stone though, so as I said, there is a blacklist, but it’s not extensive at this point in time but will regularly be updated as needed.
All of that said, I googled the article title and quickly found multiple other stories on this, but most of the top ones either linked to the Fox News article or to a Fox News local subsidiary with essentially the same article. Upon reading a few other ones, it appears this link and those contain basically the same content, so I’ll leave this one up.
Most of these will have to be evaluated like above on a case-by-case basis, but again for anyone reading this, we prefer if you find another news outlet (and that isn’t just Fox News).
Edit - The blacklist is open for users to view here, and the bot will automatically remove posts from any sources that are currently or in the future added to this list.
Is this story factually incorrect in some way?
Well the headline reads, “Elderly driver plows into Los Angeles car dealership dragging customer 20 feet to her death.” And then the line immediately beneath it says, “Los Angeles fire officials say the woman wasn’t injured.”
So while I can’t comment on factual integrity of the article, I can say for certain that is shitty fucking writing. Why the author thought we would give the slightest fuck about the driver who had a senior moment and killed someone is beyond me. The wording is terrible because it appears to immediately contradict the headline because “her” is used to describe two different subjects without clarification.
Fox News is also very well documented to spread lies and divisive politics, so cut the shit. The bottom line is they are just bad at their jobs and their intent is often maligned.
Even if this particular story isn’t (I have no way to verify that), Fox “News” is known for spreading lies and far right propaganda that actively harms the interests of the US and the American people. Any link to any of their sites generates traffic for them and helps them further their nefarious agenda.
With all due respect, I’ve heard the same about CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and basically every single news outlet at this point. If I wrote off all of them in perpetuity, I’d be left with nothing. I prefer to critically analyse news myself. Ideally there are multiple reports on important stories, and I can read from multiple ideological perspective. Someone recommended ground.news to me the other day, and they do an amazing job of collating multiple articles for the same story. It’s quite remarkable how far apart U.S. news articles can be when they report the same story. None of them appear capable of reporting stories without injecting political bias.
With all due respect, I’ve heard the same about CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and basically every single news outlet at this point.
Well, your method for verifying information sucks then.
If you are lumping NPR and FOX News into the same trust bucket, your radar for truth is way way waaaaaaaay off.
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Don’t know, I won’t click the link.
There was a south park episode about this approximately 20 years ago now
Saved everyone a search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBVdLRq_XmA
I literally watched this one last night, how weird.
Yea, keep letting people above the age of 75 drive instead of having reliable public transporation, because that is much safer am I right?
Oh and while you are at it, never test them behind the wheel no matter how old they are, because they still have the same exact driving skills as they did when they got their drivers license 60 years ago. I mean let’s be honest who actually gets worse at driving as they become old?
My grandfather was still driving my grandmother and their friends around their Florida town well into his dementia. And that was legal.
Hope the driver goes to jail.
Sometimes I think driving licenses should require regular revalidation in the form of a driving retest. People acquire bad habits and begin to ignore rules, people age as in this case and their abilities are no longer up to the standard they were when they got the license. Doing this every 5 years and maybe reducing it to every 2 years once over 70 or some such.
I think that all the time.
But this is only a big problem in societies that have decided the car should be the only method of transportation. Old people sure don’t crash busses and trains into buildings very often.
We force too many people to use and defer to cars here. Force poor people to buy the shitty things, force elderly people to drive them, make traveling without them absolute shit by requiring miles of parking and roads to be placed in every mile of of every city. Can we just close some of the streets in cities so people can walk around again?
