Somehow I've gotten on an e-mail list from Newsmax. I haven't bothered to block it because I like to see what they are squawking about. Today's e-mail was talking about pro-life news being blocked by Google.
Reality that's in their own article: The site got three strikes and thus a takedown for covid crap.
Dishonesty on both sides Loren. Here:
https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/02/28/Photos/NS/MW-GE557_MediaB_20180228115701_NS.jpg
is a chart to help you out. You will observe that Newsmax is the very bottom category of "general nonsense damaging to public discourse"
An outlet that is rated even worse than CNN is very bad indeed. On a par with the "National Enquirer" talking about baby aliens.
The 'dishonesty on both sides' claim though is itself dishonest - it implies that there's roughly similar devotion amongst the more hardcore left wing devotees of fake news bullshit as there is amongst right wing devotees of the same.
But that's simply untrue. Fox News has a mass audience and massive market penetration amongst pretty 'mainstream' Republican voters; While the penetration and market share of idiots like David "Avocado" Wolfe amongst mainstream Democrats is tiny. Fans of both are, inevitably, nutters. But only one has fans that are members of congress. And only one has a fanbase in the millions. And only one has fans who are not ridiculed as a matter of course by the vast majority of people on their own wing of politics.
Nutty lefties exist. But are utterly marginal and marginalised. Equally nutty righties are invited onto mainstream TV shows as though their biews and opinions mattered - not least because, as elected officials also hold those nutty positions, their crazy opinions DO matter.
Both sides are not the same. Only one side lets the lunatics run the asylum.
That graphic reminds me of maps of Australia that I looked at before I came here. The maps show places distributed very similarly to maps of the UK, and a naive UK resident might easily assume that towns are similarly far apart in the two countries. But the reality is that cartographers hate blank space, so they find
something to put on the map. On my UK map, the smallest dots with names are towns of 1,000-5,000 people. On my Australian map, the smallest dots are single farms or stations, with populations of maybe fewer than a dozen.
Similarly, the presence of left wing garbage news outlets on that graphic is a reflection of the need to avoid blank space; Not an indication that such sites are similarly prevalent or impactful on the left as they are on the right.
and now wants his money back because the suits were dropped when they couldn't find any evidence.
