> were discussing how to best gas as many Jews as possible
> in the US.
This is the reason that the comments section of almost every news website was removed. Unless you have the resources to moderate the comments, you'll simply end up with ultra polarized views.
> Bottomline of the anecdote is that Breitbart cannot
> possibly be considered a "high quality news site."
Because of a single experience in 2015? I saw this sort of thing on the BBC website too back when they had comments.
> from the people who criticize "mainstream media" I have
> never heard a single halfway sane suggestion of where else
> you could get news.
So, shut up and accept it? I think everybody should be aware of the potential for bias and/or incorrect news produced by mainstream media.
For example, just look at how many mainstream news outlets rushed to "lynch" the Kentucky high school student for supposedly confronting a native American [1]. The large majority of them did zero fact checking. The first rebuttals I saw online came from independent news sources that got hold of the original video and saw how it had been clipped.
[1] https://www.foxnews.com/us/kentucky-student-seen-in-viral-co...