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What's your take on CNN and MSNBC? Mother Jones? The Daily Kos? HuffPo? etc.

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Breitbart is an explicitly white nationalist publication. There is no comparison with standard news.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-mille...

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Good lord people. SPLC has a cache of emails from Stephen Miller written to various people at Breitbart about reporting their stories with explicit white nationalist ideology. You don't have to like SPLC to believe the leaked emails any more than you had to like Wikileaks to believe the leaked DNC emails.

Here's another source if you don't want to give them clicks: https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-pushed-racist-s...

SPLC is not an authority on what’s white supremacy and what’s not. They’ve been known to cast a wide net.

I'd encourage you to read the link instead of whatever kind of dismissal this is. They have leaked correspondence between Stephen Miller and Breitbart coordinating the latter's coverage with an explicit nationalist bent. Breitbart relies on Camp of Saints and VDare for their sourcing on policy stories. Have we already forgotten their "Black Crime" news tag?

> with an explicit nationalist bent.

If that's all, it's really interesting that it became white nationalist in SPLC's reporting...

They literally had a section on their 'news' website called "Black Crime" - the terms are synonymous. It's astonishing to me that the crowd would rather parse SPLC's phrasing or history rather than the documentary evidence that there are white nationalists making policy at the highest levels of our government and coordinating with one of Facebook's 'approved news sources'.

Well, taking the maximally-charitable view of things would point out that "Black Crime" would cover ~half of violent crime in the US, and so deserve a category. But somehow I doubt that they'd cover non-black crime to quite the same extent. (Though the maximally charitable view there would be that non-black crime is better covered on other sites than black crime is, and so on)

Gross.

SPLC brands anything they dislike "white nationalism". They're unreliable at best.

You should read the actual link where leaked emails show Breitbard using V-Dare and Camp of Saints as source docs for their articles...

What I said is true, regardless of what Breitbart does.

SPLC? Nope.

Not familiar with HuffPo but based on your examples of either middle of the road to corporate Democratic supporters I think the whole narrative of there being a bias against conservative news is a false victimization claim. There should be a bias against untruths, even wikipedia banned Breitbart and the Daily Mail as references.

Are any of those confirmed to be included? AFAIK none of those are.

Not sure any of those are specifically - but Buzzfeed.news, People, Business Insider etc are listed on the landing page as a sources.

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