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"That you and vertex-four disagree not only on the facts, but on the nature of facts indicates that perhaps his point has some merit." Unlikely. One of us has spent a large chunk of their professional career working in and around newsrooms.
The fact is that facts lie and don't always capture the big picture and they certainly don't capture the importance of an event in and of itself. With millions of events happening each and every day the simple act of choice is incredibly meaningful. Your own belief in the objectivity of modern newsrooms proves my point. Clearly both Al-Jazeera and Fox News do fact checking... yet one would be left with a very differe…
It certainly proves nothing of the kind, and your use of the phrase "belief" is disingenuous. It implies an element of faith that is entirely lacking from any of my assertions. My statements are made based on direct observation of 35 independent newsrooms and direct access to the AP wire over a period of three and a half years. Fox is an outlier in the industry.