Media Bias

RedDenver said:
The Breakthrough Institute has a history of questionable and misleading claims about climate change, so I'd take this academic whistleblower with a grain of salt:

https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/breakthrough-institutes-inconvenient-history-al-gore
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I'm sure there is an entire wing of highly competent scientists who resent or at least roll their eyes at the simplistic doomsday treatment of climate change in the mainstream media. Even the Breakthough guys are advocating for a bit more complexity and nuance to the research reporting. While I'm sure it's true that scientists fighting to get published study publishing trends just like novel writers do, it's also true that contrarians can secure a niche by staking out a partisan political stance. 

Global air temp and sea level rise are pretty unambiguous measures. But one of the reasons natural disasters seem more disastrous than decades ago is that there at 5 billion more people to kill and displace. 

 
nic said:
Wow. Listen to the reporter squirm. A food reporter no less tried to get his advertisers to backout of a fund raising event. For those who don't know, Portnoy raised a lot of money for small pizza businesses during the pandemic. 
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The journalist probably didn’t have her catalog of notes in front of her to make sure she could get the facts correct. It looks like Dave, despite trying otherwise, doesn’t have legal standing to dispute her intro email claims. She probably wanted to be well prepared in case of probable legal action taken against her for which he has legally accepted and she wanted to accurately quote and reference with her colleague.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/02/dave-portnoy-withdraws-appeal-lawsuit-insider#

 
deedsker said:
The journalist probably didn’t have her catalog of notes in front of her to make sure she could get the facts correct. It looks like Dave, despite trying otherwise, doesn’t have legal standing to dispute her intro email claims. She probably wanted to be well prepared in case of probable legal action taken against her for which he has legally accepted and she wanted to accurately quote and reference with her colleague.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/02/dave-portnoy-withdraws-appeal-lawsuit-insider#
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She scheduled a call with him for the next day so she could prepare, and then cancelled it. Seems like if a story is about to go out in 24 hours she would want to talk with the person she is writing about to at least warn them and cover her bases...but maybe not. I don't think anyone took her story seriously after this anyway.

 
Archy1221 said:
I wonder if people here will ever question NYT as a legit source on political matters…
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Might I have repeated this as fact, having just read it in the Times?

Probably. They should know better, and their integrity has been taking a hit for years.

Here's how the AP handled it:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c

But I do prefer multiple sources. Let's see how this plays out. Each side has a good reason to lie. 

If you had to assume the New York Times agenda, given its readership and history, you wouldn't expect an anti-Israel hitjob. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Might I have repeated this as fact, having just read it in the Times?

Probably. They should know better, and their integrity has been taking a hit for years.

Here's how the AP handled it:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c

But I do prefer multiple sources. Let's see how this plays out. Each side has a good reason to lie. 

If you had to assume the New York Times agenda, given its readership and history, you wouldn't expect an anti-Israel hitjob. 
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Much better headline by the AP.  

 
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