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3. The New Yorker even fact-checks CARTOONS

Mon Feb 19, 2018, 12:40 AM

Feb 2018

Opinion articles should not be misleading. This one was. And it contained explicit lies, to boot.

Nowadays, Web stories, social media, special projects, and even cartoons get some level of fact-checking treatment. One of Canby’s favorite mistakes ever made in The New Yorker was a cartoon of a penguin sitting on a living room couch and telling its hosts that it preferred to be known as an Arctic-American. “Some biologist wrote in and said, There are no penguins in the Arctic,” he says.

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NYT publishes article by Koch operative -- claims Tea Party was a grassroots movement [View all] american_ideals Feb 2018 OP

Its an Opinion....like everyone has one....not factual... pbmus Feb 2018 #1

False. That's what the right wants you to believe american_ideals Feb 2018 #2

I am not sure what you are saying ... pbmus Feb 2018 #7

The division between "news" and "opinion" is mostly a mirage american_ideals Feb 2018 #8

Again, you divert to encourage my agreement...and I do not agree pbmus Feb 2018 #9

I'll be blunt american_ideals Apr 2018 #11

The New Yorker even fact-checks CARTOONS american_ideals Feb 2018 #3

So stick with the New Yorker. You've made your point. hedda_foil Feb 2018 #4

But the NYT's exploitation by the GOP basically got Trump elected. american_ideals Feb 2018 #5

From what I've gathered from Indivisible BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #6

Nah. Tea Party was kicked off by Beck. The GOP has no grassroots - only astroturf and lies american_ideals Mar 2018 #10