I've never once defended FOX, so why are you suggesting that I support them? In fact, I've intimated the exact opposite.
I base it on the perspective of the media bias checker sites. I'm not sure which source you had an issue with.
In a sense, you did, by posting their similar Media Bia/Fact Check graphic thumbnails. A clearer picture emerges with the text capsules you omitted.
- Overall, we rate Fox News right biased based on editorial positions that align with the right and Questionable due to the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks. Straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, which earns them a Mixed factual rating.
- Overall, we rate MSNBC Left Biased based on story selection that consistently favors the establishment left. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to news hosts and the website producing 3 pants on fire claims.
When I dug a bit into PolitiFact, most of their Pants On Fire items were from Facebook, and a majority of the remainder were quotes of interviewers on the non-news portion of the programming. I’d say that the similar graphics are an artifact of how MB/FC weights their information, without ascribing error to that site.
Fox gets good marks for their “beat reporter” news. However a thing I’ve noticed is a selection bias toward local happenings that support or advance conservative culture war. This sort of bias does not show up in fact check, since the events reported are actual. But I find them played on Fox and usually not on more center-oriented media outlets in the results of the Google search.
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