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Originally Posted by BigThief
If an organization is willing to mislead (lie) about one topic I fail to see why I should trust them on another. There's many other right of center organizations that are reputable, The Fraser Institutions continually fudges numbers to their agendas favour. If I want a right wing group to feed me loaded information I'll go to Franco Terrazzano and the Canadian Taxpayer Federation. They're pretty scummy and bias but at least they don't pretend they're not.
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This isn't an argument that you should take this to its most absurd extreme, like using the Epoch Times or Rebel News as a legit source -- those sites routinely fail fact checks and are generally unashamed of it.
If you had friends who held different political leanings than you, you would not have many friends left if you asserted every single time they framed an issue a certain way that they're wilfully misleading you instead of merely having a different viewpoint on a subject, even if you can prove that viewpoint flawed. The point is to get around the opinion and evaluate the facts.
Organizations are comprised of people who are fallible. Part of media literacy is knowing no matter what you look at, you're going to have to deal with
some implicit bias or
some inaccuracy and knowing how to navigate through it to get just the real information.
I hold people in the same regard when they claim CBC is some leftist liberal rag just because they don't like the words on the page.