On April 4, 2019, Daily Kos published an article titled “Another bluff: Trump backs off border shutdown, threatens to tariff cars built in Mexico…next year”
The main problem in this article is concerned with Trump backing down from his threat of shutting down the Southern U.S. border. The purpose of this article was to communicate how contradictory and naive Daily Kos sees Trump’s views. So, the whole article was made to communicate their opinions, not necessarily facts.
According to Media Bias/Fact Check, Daily Kos media source is “Left Biased.” They say that Left bias sources tend to uses loaded language, especially words that could influence the reader’s emotion. (Media Bias/Fact Check). One can observe this just in the title, where Daily Kos talks about what Trump is saying is a bluff. Donald Trump has demonstrated non-liberal views, so that is maybe why Daily Kos is obviously opposed to anything that Donald Trump may do or say.
Later in the article, Daily Kos continues to just bash President Trump. They used at least six twitter posts that talk about Trump’s contradictory statements and how many false claims he’s made last week. But no scholarly or credible sources to back their opinions. This author, who a twitter user named @annieli, isn’t even reviewed by Daily Kos’s staff before the twitter user can post this article, which implies that there is no review or edits that have been made to this article before publishing it.
This article doesn’t just state facts or give statistics. It seemed Daily Kos simply used convenient twitter posts or other articles to support their views. This wouldn’t be an article to base facts or statistics on. It would be to support opinions, specifically for left bias beliefs.
“Another Bluff: Trump Backs off Border Shutdown, Threatens to Tariff Cars Built in Mexico…next Year.” Daily Kos, www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/4/1847812/-Another-bluff-Trump-backs-off-border-shutdown-threatens-to-tariff-cars-built-in-Mexico-next-year.
“Daily Kos.” Media Bias/Fact Check, mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-kos/.