Originally Posted by
T. A. Gardner
I use the two to the left, two to the right method initially in evaluating their stories. If the story is fact checking a conservative move their score two towards "true." If the story is about a Leftist, move their score two towards "false."
So, a Right oriented story rated as "Completely false" or the like becomes "Partially true," while a Left oriented story rated "True" becomes "Partially true" in the same way.
This becomes apparent when you read their op ed columns critically. For those they disagree with, they take anything not absolutely provable as "true" and say it is a "lie," "completely false," etc. For those they agree with they go the other direction. A complete lie is brushed off as "misspoke," or something like "there was a bit of truth in it," and the like. Much of the time this is so obvious it hurts to read it. You wonder how anyone could be that unobjective and oblivious to what they are writing about.
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