This is a key point imo. Newsrooms (not counting opinion here) recognize that their reporters have biases. And newsrooms are structured in such a way and try to train their reporters to compensate fo… (View Post)

The denialism probably has two main causes imo. One is obviously geographic isolation of the voting blocs. It's not actually the states that are all that divided, but instead the contrast between how… (View Post)

To be fair there are four outcomes in the PoE combat system -- miss, graze, hit, crit. As opposed to D&D's three outcome system. So you could argue that dice rolling is a little more smoothed out… (View Post)

On Hedges' Iraq reporting: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/heroes-error/ "EIGHT WEEKS after September 11, a pair of Americans entered the gleaming marble lobby of Beirut’s Intercont… (View Post)

Chris Hedges is a serial plagiarist. Uncovered by editors who *wanted* to work with him at Harper's. https://newrepublic.com/article/118114/chris-hedges-pulitzer-winner-lefty-hero-plagiarist Hedges w… (View Post)