The "bias" is in investigating only CNN. Fake News is news which is made up and spread with the intention of misleading the reader. When CNN corrects a mistake, the Daily Caller is still calling them "fake news." Why is that? Maybe we have a different definition of what "fake news" is.Since the article ONLY involves CNN as "fake news," I'd say the Daily Caller is also involved in being "biased"I'll start with this piece from the Daily Caller listing seven times this year that CNN has botched or put out fake/erroneous news:
7 Times CNN Botched The News In 2017
These include:
--Comey testimony
--Scaramucci smear
--Fake news about fake news
--Feeding fish in Japan
--The President's knowledge of Japanese cars
--Funding of the Dossier
--Don Jr. and Wikilieaks
And that's just CNN. Let's see other examples or examples of news declared fake that was actually true.
So let's add them to the list, shall we?
The article was about CNN specifically. It was about ONLY CNN and not any of the others that could have been included.
So what did the article get wrong? How does it show bias in any way?
I see strong bias by both CNN and Fox. I don't watch either one. Even PBS newshour, though, is biased in how they lead the discussion by their analysts. I don't remember a lot of analysts on Walter Cronkite's news. That was fine. If you want analysis, put it on opinion shows and keep it out of the news. THAT is where the news has gone wrong.
If you think about it, every news organization in the world has to sift through what to report in their half hour/hour or on their front page. Bias begins right there. Why must we hear about terrorist attacks in Pakistan? Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar? From the news, it sounds as if the world is going to hell in a hand basket, when actually this has been the longest relative stretch of peace in our history. It will be looked back upon as a Golden Age. Yet we see the sensational "bad news." It's all biased, Foxfyre. I'm sure you live your life and see all around you that we are a good people. When any politician tries to tell you that half of us are .... deplorables or hysterical bleeding hearts or "rapists, drug dealers and criminals," something is wrong. I know you know that. Don't let it fool you
I don't remember if I responded to this or not, and I didn't want to hunt through the pages to find out. So if this is my second go, I apologize.
The target for that particular article was CNN. That happened to be the media source the writer was interested in at the time. If that writer had included NY Times and WAPO et al who have also been guilty of reporting stuff that turned out to be quite wrong and neither has anything to do with CNN, the piece would have become so long nobody would have read it.
So long as the piece did not say that ONLY CNN was a fake news source, the way the Daily Caller did it was quite proper. To cite the errors at CNN does not require citing the errors a lot of others have made and/or that everybody else has made for all time.
The highly biased news however, including CNN, is frequently guilty of reporting some event or statement that is favorable to President Trump and/or some other member of the administration etc.--you know, people on the wrong side of the ideological isle--and not only do they word it to look less admirable than it was, they will invariably dredge up something, often entirely unrelated, to prominently include negatives in the story. Conversely, if the story is about something negative, they won't temper it with something positive. And in journalism ethics as I learned them, that is entirely inexcusable.
As I have pointed out several times now the Daily Caller was in fact highly biased in their article.
And as I have pointed out- you do not hold Fox/conservative media to the same 'standards' that you say you hold other media.
While I agree that there is bias in reporting- that is very different from 'fake news'-
"Fake News" is like the made up crap that Trump pulls out- and that very irresponsible media sources create wholesale.
You equate reporting mistake and biases with "Fake News" but exclusively by everyone but Fox.