<div dir="ltr">There is no such thing as an unbiased news outlet, not where anything related to red tribe / blue tribe conflicts in Western Civilization is reported.<div><br></div><div>Partisan bias makes far too many people click on ads and contribute to your eyeball count. There's no money to be made being unbiased, so no one does it.</div><div><br></div><div>The only way you get a remotely balanced picture is reading pages and pages of commentators arguing about the biased news stories.<br><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>There are occasionally unbiased scientific papers.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:06 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Question for all: by what criteria do you decide a news outlet is unbiased? Do you know of any? How do you know they are what they say they are? Because their opinions agree with yours?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:25 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:55 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>The assumption is that a CDC funded with more money could have done better. That isn’t clear to me at all, and is based on a number of speculative assumptions. I keep hearing we didn’t have enough test kits and so forth, but</i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i> </i>[...]</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I'm not surprised you keep hearing that, nor am I surprised you added a "but". So you're right and every <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">epidemiologist in the country is wrong when they insist that early testing is vitally important.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div><div> </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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