Los Angeles officials say that an elderly woman accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes outside a car dealership on Wednesday morning, driving into the building and leaving one dead.
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.
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.
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.
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.