As long as news accounts found in the internet search are citing actual facts, linking unaltered quotes, in their proper context, or video from public statements, why does it matter if it's Alex Jones or the NYT, or any other source??
It matters because it's terrifically easy to slant and distort a story, even if you're using "facts". You can easily avoid, ignore and
mangle any number of "facts", you can take them out of context, you can do all kinds of things.
A "major" press organization can't get away with that nearly as easy as can a small, niche site that caters to ideological purists who only want "facts" that they like.
That's not to say that major media doesn't do it to a degree too; but the niche sites do it AGGRESSIVELY and CONSISTENTLY, on both ends.
I don't want a cherry-picked article, and I don't know why so many are so willing to play along.
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Which is why I said
"citing actual facts, linking unaltered quotes, in their proper context, or video"
From my own personal experiences, I have watched live events, where a person made specific comments. Then when I want to cite those specific comments here, it's near impossible to find an internet site that accurately quotes in print, or shows an unaltered video for the specific comments I am trying to refer to in a post.
So sometimes after I have searched all over, and the specific quotes or video that I'm looking for, can only be found on some off the wall site, or worse yet, a controversial site that one side of the isle or the other hates. Then when I post the link, I'm ridiculed for trying to promote the site, when all I want is the video, or the quotes.
Sometimes, I might find all the video and quotes on a site the left hates, and they will complain about it, and disregard the video and quotes as fake, even though the site, which I used that was linking those quotes and videos from the NYT, WaPo, Politico, MSNBC, etc...
The point is, why does the left trash my link, because I found all the pertinent quotes and videos on Fox News, if the story cites a bunch of news orgs that are trusted by the left?
People need to get over their partisan bias, stop whining so much, and just debate like adults.