05-16-2023, 10:13 PM
(05-16-2023, 09:07 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I did not quote an opinion piece. I linked a news article and the source document. Now, the post I was dismissive of linked a piece from the opinion section of the Fox News website. So it was a one-sided opinion piece. Do you have enough media literacy to differentiate between a news article and an opinion piece?Actually, what is obvious is that you do not have enough media literacy to know when an opinion is injected into a news story and fools you into thinking that it is an unbiased news story.
It stopped being a news article and became an opinion piece when the journalist wrote "...that fell far short of the former president's prediction that the "crime of the century" would be uncovered."
That's his opinion. There's no fact there. It was unnecessary and reveals his bias...extra emphasis on the bolded part.
A news story would report and present the facts to you so that you could make up your mind. A news piece would write "A special prosecutor found that the FBI rushed into its investigation of ties between Russian and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and relied too much on raw and unconfirmed intelligence as he concluded a four year probe" since those words are literally in the report.
If he wanted to mention Trumps statement since it is significant, it should be worded more carefully, like....."The Durham Report, which Trump predicted would reveal the crime of the century, found that the FBI rushing into its investigation of ties between Russian and...."
That leaves you the reader to decide if this is indeed the crime of the century. But the writer obviously believes, as do you, that this isn't a big deal or some sort of vindication of Trump, so he can't help but inject that opinion in to his piece.
Admittedly, it is hard to discern opinion when it is presented this way. And quite frankly, opinion is probably always woven into news stories on some level. It is our job to recognize it.
