Those statements are very rarely confirmed tbh

So… Do you know who Van Zandt is? Any evidence that they’re even American?

O&G really is the key decider in US foreign policy, huh?

The Palestinian Authority somehow took a more extreme position than both Hamas and the Israeli police.

The facts are that helicopters were used to indiscriminately target people in the kill zone and likely killed Israeli civilians, but the helicopters were by no means the only cause of casualties in Re’im. To claim that helicopters killed all 364 people doesn’t pass the sniff test.

So… You haven’t read the article then, I take it?

Do you read articles, or only headlines?

Ad hominem attacks, wonderful

According to who? Columbia Journalism Review says otherwise.

What are your credentials?

MBFC, well-known in journalism circles for being an “armchair academic” and for reliance on the very subjective assessments they’re trying to suss out.

Who is the founder of MBFC?

What are the credentials of MBFC? A physiology degree on behalf of Dave Van Zandt and…?

MBFC doesn’t even have a methodology for scoring. There’s no formula and it’s entirely a subjective grading.

Their scores are worse than useless

Their methodology is literally “this is the number I feel like they deserve”

Do we know anything about the founder of MBFC, Dave Van Zandt, other than what he’s claimed? No, not really. Why, then, are we trusting his word on everything?

Columbia Journalism Review described MBFC as an amateur attempt at categorizing media bias and “armchair media analysis.”

MBFC again and again. Do we know anything about MBFC that isn’t published on the MBFC site? Nobody knows who Dave Van Zandt is. His only credentials are: he’s registered as non-affiliated, he’s interested in politics, he has a physiology degree and works in healthcare, he has a “keen eye,” he’s been “doing this for a long time,” and he has a website.

His methodology is entirely subjective and his primary source of credibility is that people like you use his site.

Their methodology is arbitrary to the point of being incoherent.

Now, maybe if you could find this guy’s credentials it might give him a bit more credence. Oh, that’s right. You can’t.

Have you looked at their methodology? It wouldn’t pass a basic university-level writing course.

I mean, it’s a bit of both. At the end of the day, the idea of democracy isn’t to flip flop between fascist regimes that imprison each other, right?

It’s really not. MBFC is run by a single guy. It’s methodology is basically worthless. It’s basically one dude’s opinion on what news sources he likes to read.

What do we know about that guy? Not much. He happens to share the same name as a very prominent lawyer/professor, which makes finding details about him very challenging.