Why won't CNN update thisr Trump Jobs Tracker?

[Dill]

(03-04-2019, 07:31 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Sort answer:
Their personalities and opinion pieces show a bias toward all things Left:

Long Answer:

Thanks for posting the long answer. 

My first impression is that their method seems largely based upon opinion polling, not actual source analysis.
Will read this more closely tonight.  

[*bfine32*]

(03-04-2019, 10:56 PM)Dill Wrote: Thanks for posting the long answer. 

My first impression is that their method seems largely based upon opinion polling, not actual source analysis.
Will read this more closely tonight.  

Pretty much the only way you can judge bias is by how they're viewed by multiple sources. 


Perhaps answering a question will help you find the answer you seek:

Is Fox bias toward Trump? 

[Dill]

(03-04-2019, 11:03 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Pretty much the only way you can judge bias is by how they're viewed by multiple sources. 

Perhaps answering a question will help you find the answer you seek:

Is Fox bias toward Trump? 

That's a good question. Yes Fox, as a news organization, is biased in favor of Trump, though individual journalists may not be.

But "bias" is not, in itself, a bad thing or even (for me) a primary criterion in deciding whether a text I am reading is accurate or valuable or qualitatively better than other news sources.  In fact I would say that bias hunting, as I see it practiced online nowadays and in some media, is more an exercise in self-confirmation. Think of a Trump surrogate constructing bias around an FBI agent by determining whom he golfs with or whether his wife is a Democrat, or think of Trump supporters vowing NOT to read the New York Times because Trump has informed them it is "biased." Or even people in this forum sourcing an article to a news organization as a kind of shorthand dismissal. That's our message board version of "His wife gave 100,000 dollars to the Clintons."

So constructing a chart of where news sources are on a spectrum defining "left" and "right" (with nary a mention of the defining premise of socialism) is of dubious value so long as this problem social, cultural and historical context is not addressed. Placing The New Yorker on the "Far left" of the political spectrum tells us more about how meaningful, actually descriptive political classification has broken down than about The New Yorker.

Viewing multiple sources, as you suggest, is also necessary, but not sufficient.

Also important to me is whether a writer is critically reflexive, logically consistent, and working from evidence which can itself be checked/shared. Also very important is how an author selects a topic (from what range of possible topics) and contextualizes it. If an author fails this test, it is on his/her own merits, and not because s/he was published in Fox or Breitbart.  By the same token, one does not automatically get a pass because one publishes in the NYT.

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I think CNN probably updated it becauyse there were only 20K new jobs in February.