‘Balanced’ journalist pushes politician’s lie to prove they don’t have a ‘pro-fact’ bias : theonion

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 months ago

Too real onion, too real.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago

"Now that we've heard from a respected expert in this field, let's balance things out by listening to an idiot."

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

The "other side for balance" thing has been compromised and abused for a long time now. Its not for balance. Its to normalise the extreme views they want to push, making people fall for an appeal to moderation fallacy believing the truth to be somewhere in the middle due to its middle-ness.

If they had a rocket launch happening and brought on a rocket scientist from nasa to discuss it, they wouldn't also bring on a guy who thinks we should cancel they launch because the sky is a giant carpet and the rocket with rip it, for "balance."

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The internet needs a tag or top leveldomain for comedy and/or satire sites. They are too believable.

Perhaps easier and better mark factual sites.

[–] DxK@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Dot onion? …wait no that’s taken…

[–] retrospectology@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Jesus. This headline is "The last chopper out of Vietnam" of satire.

[+] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io -26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just 'how' many 'quotation' 'marks' do you 'need' to get 'your' 'satire' across.

I get that you can't exactly just throw a /s at the end of your headline, but this has the same energy as a political comic with nouns written on literally everything.

[–] ZeroCool@feddit.org 35 points 4 months ago

I don’t know, but “twice” appears to be the amount it takes to get you worked up and ranting.

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