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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
shakran,
"Those facts do not make the video any less truthful however."
"This is an opinion piece. No one is saying it's an objective news piece."
i'm not saying you can't do it, but those two statements appear to be difficult to reconcile. are we into truthful opinions? if it's a truthful opinion... doesn't that make it a fact? how can it be truthful and not objective?
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I like the sky because it is blue.
It's an opinion statement that also has a true fact in it - the blue sky.
This is an opinion piece that uses true facts to make its point. So yes, it can be true while still being an opinion.
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I will agree that there is one major difference: Fox News pretends to be conveying the truth. The Daily Show makes no such hypocritical claim.
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was very well said. Nicely done!