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Originally Posted by Delgard
The Huffington Post is not a self-developing news agency. They accept bloggers and news from other agencies. The owners and programmers look for news that fits their agenda.
I never use them for anything.
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They may not necessarily be "self-developing" ('Polaroid news'?), but that does not diminish the sources they use; for the most part, the sources are major, reputable news agencies. This is a practice used by many of the other news outlets such as when they cite, say, the AP as a source. THP also provides links to the sources in the text of their news articles, so the provenance of the reportage is traceable; they are not passing off other's reportage as being from their own "whole cloth'; THP is often a place where one can read about a news subject and find, in an article, links to further info instead of having to plow through a slew of same-same reportage. In the case of the link I posted, it is not a straight news article, but, rather, a sort of op-ed piece (the author is a law professor with knowledge of and experience with war morality issues) and is intended to be so taken. There are a number of posts based on opinion in this thread and I posted that one as either another view or clarification of previous views.
As far as the owners and programmers looking for news that fits their agenda, the same can be said of any of the "owners and programmers" of any other news outlets; it is up to the reader(s) to look beyond the "owners and programmers"'s narrowness and seek the actual truth of the facts...
BTW, I would be interested if you had any info on any news outlet(s) that is/are unflinchingly fair and unbiased and do not have 'an axe to grind'...
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