Bill Maher gives rules of thumb for evaluating news outlets

[Mik]

Starts around the 1:30 mark, but what's up to then is good too.

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[89th]

"...and NPR when they stop bashing the rich only to ask for money..." lol

[89th]

Really it's a commentary, as we've discussed here, that "news" today is really just "corporate media" pretending to be a news service. The clicks and views dominates the truth or subscriber rates.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah basically a return to the way it was in the 19th and early 20th century.