Cerebralbore101 said:
SvennoJ said:
Hah that site still says CNN and BBC are mostly factual. What's the bias check on mediabiasfactcheck ;) Both have been exposed in recent years. It even says NYT is High despite deliberately running disinformation articles, exposed last year and refusing to issue corrections.
https://www.fairobserver.com/devils-dictionary/the-new-york-times-prefers-fake-rape-to-real-starvation/
Plus that site seems to focus on the left/right nonsense. Which is biased in itself. At least it rates FOX as Low, still too high lol.
It really depends on what they're reporting on how reliable the information is, hence always double check, cross reference. When it comes to the ME, Aljazeera is far more trustworthy than any Western outlets. But, yes, Aljazeera has bias as well when it comes to Qatar.
The Guardian cites over 1,500 dead in Iran.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/iran-war-timeline-civilians-bear-brunt-of-us-and-israels-month-long-campaign
Hindustan times reports 3,114 people have been killed according to HRANA. It said 1,354 of those were civilians including 207 children. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/how-many-people-have-been-killed-in-the-us-iran-war-4000-show-estimates-101773895355129.html
Iran state media puts it at 1,270
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-people-have-been-killed-us-israel-war-iran-2026-03-17/
US has been dropping 2,000 pound bombs on Iran, which have a kill radius of 350 meters and can structurally damage buildings in a 850 meter radius. There are many civilian casualties no doubt. Those are the bombs Biden halted the shipments of to Israel as they were generating too much news in Gaza, too many deaths at once reaching through to the mainstream media.
https://fxb.harvard.edu/blog/2024/10/10/new-study-shows-israel-air-dropped-2000lb-bombs-within-lethal-and-damage-ranges-of-hospitals-in-gaza/
Don't just look at one source, look at many. |
Yeah the site says CNN and BBC are mostly factual. It also gives Fox a higher than deserved rating. And it rates NPR as highly accurate, despite NPR having a serious bias in immigration and transgender issues. Anyway, you can still use their scale to see that Al Jazeera is not a reputable source. After all if the questionable CNN and BBC are rated as mostly factual then Al Jazeera should be considered trash since it has a mixed accuracy rating. And if Fox news gets a rating of low accurracy despite being deserving it's own catagory called "absolute dogshit propaganda" then you can see how Al Jazeera deserves "low" instead of mixed. In other words mediasfactcheck is softballing everyone.
Your sources say the following: Here are the tolls reported by Thursday, which Reuters has not independently verified.
Anyway, your willingness to use questionable sources like Al Jazeera or Iran State Media really hurts your argument. It's like watching a prosecutor bring fingerprints, and video evidence. Everything he needs to convict. And then he ends his statement with "Also my toddler said the accused is a doo-doo head" without a shred of irony or humor. Like he legitimately thinks his toddler's word is equally as damning as the fingerprint or video evidence.
Too many people on the left/right issue spend so much time in their own bubble that they forget how ridiculous their positions sound to normal people. And that's when you lose people. Nobody wants to listen to a political zealot, and using certain sources makes you look like one. |
That's why I use many sources, Aljazeera, CNN, BBC, Reuters, AP, NYT, Guardian, Haaretz, UNHRC, HRW, OCHA, MSF, B'tSelem, Zeteo, Drop Site News, Mondoweiss and various 'youtube media' like Democracy Now, Janta Ka, Breaking Points, Double Down News, DRM News, DW News, France 24, Sky News, Owen Jones, The Humanist Report and whatever Google comes up with.
Anyway death toll in Iran is now close to or already past 2,000 with 3.2 million displaced.
What does mostly factual mean anyway? Repeating propaganda is factual? For example Reuters/AP just print the garbage that comes out of Trump's mouth, yeah it's factual in the sense that he said that, doesn't make it anywhere close to the truth or facts. Same with blatant lies by the IDF, usually debunked later but first printed as 'fact'.
At least the beauty of the internet is that you can cross reference everything instantly. At least for now until AI puts an end to it. It's enough work already to counter the AI bias algorithms now.
What really hurts any argument nowadays is using any US billionaire owned media.
