The Lying Between The Reeds

"Playbeing" by Herr D on heromachine.com.

[begin recorded segment] -ve you been doing? It appears to be excessive newsfeed watching?

I've been searching the talking heads out there for someone besides CNN and NBC for low bias. NBC has unusually good op-ed level stuff that appeals to common sense. Very few logical errors. The anchors are just as bad at predicting things--

Like Trump's election, which you predicted two years in advance.
 
. . . yeah, like that. And their analysis is up there in the 90% of news accuracy. Their presentation is up there for accuracy with CNN and ESPN.

So watching the news there would be sufficient to know the truth?
 
Well, of course not. They ARE human. They have bias! None of them are quite as accurate as the Washington Post. Uh--you'll have to ignore the op-ed section there, till you have the news properly digested. Then the opinions. That might do. Their fact checking is pretty good, too.

You are still maintaining that most pundits stay below 50% accuracy.
 
So far, the only thing you can do to make pundits more accurate than Maddow, who DOES broach 90%--

That is a large difference.
 
Well, she's exceptional! She's not always that high, but she does skate really low on bias, high on common sense, low on logical errors, and her presentation still isn't boring. But the only way to get MORE accurate than her is to notice when the rare guest disagrees with pundits on both sides of the political spectrum.

That would require watching pundits you disagree with on factual information, in addition to their bias.
 
Yeah, well, you can't be suggestible enough that you only pay attention to what you want to hear or the people you agree with. You have to actually find out what's true, sometimes by sampling issues you know firsthand and comparing how sources broadcast about them. I've seen Geraldo Rivera tell pundits they 'weren't absolutely right' on both sides of the issues. He hasn't been invited back to either show he did that on.

You could follow him then?
 
No, he was only useful at pointing out those two flaws in their worldviews. You have to listen really close to what people say when they object to something. If it holds water, then it is more valuable than the rest of the show. Geraldo is on the famous side for pushing the limits on speaking out when it might not be so safe to do so. Reference?

Calvin and Hobbes quotation: The truth will set your teeth free.
 
Not what I was looking for, but that will do. Blog on this?

Right away. [stop recording, upload, disconnec