re: Liberal and Conservative News Choices

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They may be more "moderate" than msnbc, but that doesn't make them moderate.

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I am arguing that, compared to either MSNBC and Fox, all those channels are extremely moderate just by the sheer nature of their distance from the extreme boundaries set by those two channels. If you were to quantify this visually on a thermometer with MSNBC at 0 and Fox at 100 I think most other news channels would be hovering between 45 and 55 visually.

Given this, I would argue that anyone who uses either Fox or MSNBC is knowingly selecting a news source that is provably more deceptive and false in order to further reinforce their previously held belief system. If you choose 100 degree Fox because ABC News sits at 45 and is therefore slightly left leaning, you are making a choice not to be informed, but to be further indoctrinated.

That is unless you want to argue that MSNBC is at 0 and major cable networks are at 10/15.....in which case you're likely a partisan hack who has fallen for a redefinition of the "center" and are probably beyond hope.