I will ask a question in response to this. If it is true, as many on this page have suggested, that all media sources are "fake", then we can't use them as a source of verifiable information to demonstrate a point. If is is true, also as many have suggested, that all politicians are liars, then we certainly can't use them as sources of information. So what do we do? Maybe some media sources are actually pretty reliable, but are put down, because they publish information that somebody doesn't want to believe - even if accurate. Maybe some politicians are actually pretty factual, but get shouted down because of their party affiliation. It is really hard to find truth these days without getting distracted by all the biased BS floating around on the internet.
I get what you are saying. But in point of fact, getting to the truth SHOULD be what debates are all about. Sometimes, it is good to realize that something you thought was true...wasn't. It makes you humble and realize that maybe, just maybe...you're not right about EVERYTHING and therefore, on the off chance this is the one-in-a-million case where you're right, you might want to be a little more polite to the person on the other side who just might, maybe, this-one-time, be right.
The issues that lend themselves best to this type of debate are arguments about economics, where we have official government statistics to rely upon. Not perfect, but probably the most factually based data out there. I find that many mainstream media sites distort this data all the time to make their points.
Where the debate breaks down is on the cultural issues. Like the Georgia black representative who initially claimed she was harassed by a white man at the grocery store who used Trump's words about "go back where you came from" only to have it come out 2 days later that he did not *actually* say that, he just her *feel* that way (yet she still defends her initial accusation). In my mind, it is a classic case of inverse racism....a black demonstrating their own inherent racism...but tbh, that is merely my opinion and interpretation. This can then lead into a debate about whether hate crimes are up or not. FBI stats say they are up. BUT, FBI stats in prior years are misleading because many police agencies are only just now beginning to categorize crimes that way, so comparisons to prior years are honestly very hard to make. The compilation of hate crime "fakes" (like the one I just mentioned) is enormously lengthy, and many have gotten coverage in conservative media and NOT covered in mainstream or liberal media, so we are left with different facts and no way to honestly resolve this controversial issue.
I am not sure how to solve this one. Media all seems to have the axe they want to grind. I would love to find some media that truely showed all the information, all the data, all the facts, both left and right....and then let the audience decide. Let me know if you find that.
