Highlights From The Comments On The Media Very Rarely Lying

Highlights companion to 'The Media Very Rarely Lies.' Curates the debate over Scott's thesis (the media rarely states false/made-up facts, though it deceives via selective true statements): definition-of-'lie' disputes, 'lies of egregious sloppiness,' whether Infowars believes its claims (Scott's 40/20/40 estimate), a survey-fraud debunk of the '8% had a relative die of the vaccine' poll (Zack's Pollfish analysis; Scott's ACX re-run got 0.9%), clear-media-lie examples (Macedonian fake-news, RealRawNews, the Zimmerman 911 edit, Rittenhouse), and Scott's own seven-category taxonomy of wrongness (reserving 'lie' for the top tier).

Quality 72 · Strong. Strong (upper): a substantive Highlights companion elevated by a genuinely useful contribution -- the seven-category taxonomy of reasoning-well/badly-and-deceiving, plus the solid survey-fraud debunk; held below Excellent as a curation-heavy, dependent follow-up.

Claude’s paradigm shift 50 · Moderate. Moderate: the honest-disagreement / reckless-disregard distinction and the taxonomy are a fresh, useful framing built on the parent posts.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. Minor/within-discourse: a media-epistemics discussion with no material footprint.