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      This ain’t a real news site

      https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sfgate/

      Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
      Factual Reporting: HIGH
      Country: USA
      MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
      Media Type:
      Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
      MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

      Re: LEFT-CENTER bias: These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation.

      Overall, we rate the SFGate Left-Center Biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.

      You don’t have to like the tone of the editorial but SFGate is a reputable source.

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      This is the main newspaper in San Francisco California. As people have mentioned, it’s an opinion piece.

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      But then censors the word shit. This is like a high school intern got access to their CMS

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      Yeah, not news at all. OP doesn’t need to editorialize when the columnist has already done such a good job of editorializing themselves lol

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          AP and Reuters are the only real news agencies left (with PBS getting close but still editorializing too often).

          Everything else is entertainment media, and they’ve even gone to court to prove it themselves

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            While I agree with most of what you’re saying, do you realize that the linked media is literally an editorial? Published in the editorial section?

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            Everything else is entertainment media, and they’ve even gone to court to prove it themselves

            If by “they” you mean Fox News exclusively, then yes, that’s correct. Fox News has made that argument in court.

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              … But there would only ever be one case in the first place? Because once FOX won it applied to everyone else too? There was never a need for additional cases, they all benefited.

              Seriously, go watch CNN from a year before that case, and then from a year after it. They and everyone else took the ball and ran with it, never looking back.

              And of course they did, they’re corporations. They’re in the business of making money, not improving the world. Why would they hamstring themselves by playing by a different set of rules than the competition?

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                … But there would only ever be one case in the first place? Because once FOX won it applied to everyone else too? There was never a need for additional cases, they all benefited.

                Lol no. That’s not how the real world works. Fox News didn’t establish a precedent by “taking a whammy” on behalf of the rest of the mainstream media so they could all lie freely and thereby ending all potential litigation against media outlets. They just successfully defended themselves. The reason Fox News is the only outlet to mount such a defense in court is because they’re the only outlet that’s consistently, and verifiably, lied under the auspices of “entertainment” and been sued as a direct result.

                Do you understand that “the media” is not a monolith? What Fox News does is not automatically true across the board.

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          You misunderstood (as did everyone else it seems). I meant to say the OP had no need to editorialize because it was already editorialized; it was in response to the previous comment which said they assumed it WAS editorialized. I was saying “op didn’t editorialize, because they didn’t need to, because it was already editorialized”