The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164254   Message #3928680
Posted By: DMcG
02-Jun-18 - 07:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Emotional Subjects
Subject: RE: BS: Emotional Subjects
It is not a difficult task to distinguish between fact and your opinion when posting

There is a subtlety in that that is easily missed. It is indeed easy to distinguish between the original article and *your* opinion. Rather more difficult is when the original article freely mixes the 'fact' and the opinion. And then the facts themselves are not always easy to get at and understand. Financial and other economic data in particular is extremely sensitive to the time period chosen and the precise measurements taken and definitions used. Such bias in determining economic 'facts', intentional or otherwise, is commonplace.

The Sun, Express and Daily Mail tend to be more prone to mixing fact and opinion than most of the others, in my opinion, though all media is prone to it to a greater or lesser extent. You are entitled to disagree, naturally.