Originally Posted by John Voorpostel
I actually do not feel news deprived at all Martin. One of the benefits of living here is that we get all US networks as well as Canadian networks. As I am a news junkie I also check out important\interesting stuff on different sites.

Canadian and international sites and sites such as AP, Reuters etc have no dog in this fight and no interest in shaping public opinion. Ive saif this before and I will say it again. I find Al Jazeera a fair site for news. While its opinion editors are probably left to left of center...the news side reports facts as they are. Like Fox news does now

Not saying they are perfect or infallible or better...just they have no reasons to lie about things, or misrepresent

For example...Mike Pompeo is being excoriated by CNN for saying there would be a seamless transition to Trump's second term...then played that over and over....while ignoring the rest of his statement. Pompeo says it was a joke...and probably was. Bad timing and tasteless perhaps, but I give him the benefit of the doubt there and am dismayed by CNN's reporting there.

On the other hand, Fox Opinion side (not the news people) are all in on the massive election fraud conspiracy

I am totally against edited news clips designed to take things out of context and it taints everything the offenders say


I share your concerns about bias, John, and I may be able to help. Here is an easy method of discerning the leanings of a particular news site - the Trump Face Index.

The Index is based upon the selection of stock photos used to illustrate a story about the President. At sites where the President is, shall we say, not well-loved, such as CNN, picture editors will carefully draw from their stock of photographs designed to make the President resemble as much as possible a constipated orang utan. Over at Fox News, the most flattering images will be displayed on screen whenever he calls in. Along the line between these extremes of Constipated Orang-Utan and Chiselled Hero lie the "just the facts" news sites such as Reuters, where more neutral pictures will show up.

The index is not 100% accurate. If, in the act of doing whatever the story is about, the President happens to look heroic or just a bit orang-utany, then this will be reflected in the more neutral sites. It only really works when the photo editor has the discretion to choose a picture just to stick up next to a story about the President. However, as a rule of thumb, it works and illustrates the fact that bias finds expression in all kinds of ways.

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