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Originally Posted by MrLabGuy
"If a news article is quoting a source, and other than the quotes, they do not give any commentary, then either the article is true, or the writer lied and misquoted the source. Either the source was quoted correctly or they weren't. There is nothing "left" or "right" about that".
You were claiming that a Far Left Wing Blog was a credible news source regardless of their obvious Left leaning slant.
So I gather when FOX news quotes a source in News report you take what is reported as factual and not Right Wing Propaganda.
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Correct. For example, Fox News will have an article that says something like this:
A Pentagon spokesman tells Fox News that 68 Taliban were killed in an airstrike today south of Kanduhar. According to the spokesman, no civilians were killed as has been claimed by the Taliban.
There is nothing "right wing" about this, and yes I'm sure the Pentagon spokesman did indeed say what Fox News said he did. So yes, the article is factual.
Is that Pentagon spokesman telling the truth? That is a whole other question which, typically, the Fox News article will not even address or comment on. Again, nothing "right wing" about that.
As for the Raw Story article I posted, they report that several CIA sources said something about the job of a CIA agent. If you believe that Raw Story's article is incorrect, then you are implying that they lied and the CIA sources did not say what they reported.
If you want you can imply that the CIA sources lied about their own agent's job, and I suppose that is possible. But since it's classified information you seek (finding out the job specifics of a covert agent), I would think the word of "CIA sources" would be as close to the truth as you are going to get.