[Farm93]

Yeah, in light of the events from the last three weeks, clearly a bad move (esp looking at how the Florida State players and the Texas players are being active).  Also, no one should be under the impression that OAN is a valid bastion of journalism...it's a notch below Infowars as far as I can tell.

I came here to post the same article. Football coaches seem to be generally pretty conservative, which is fine. But this is a new low for Gundy, who's been involved with a lot of lows. OAN is basically a conspiracy website, and about as anti BLM as it comes. When you are a white coach and your livelihood depends largely on black football players, you have to have some type of reasoning ability.

Disclaimer: I've never actually watched OAN, but I have come across several (seemingly apolitical, but maybe I'm missing something?) references to the Ad Fontes Media "Media Bias Chart", so I just Googled the most recent version (5.0).  I was surprised to see OAN plotted virtually dead-center in their Reliability range (slightly closer to The Weather Channel than The National Enquirer) and slightly less Biased (and slightly more Reliable) than MSNBC!  Slate is apparently even less Reliable and also more Biased.  As a "reality check", they show Bloomberg, The New York Times and Al Jazeera in the neutral Bias range, so it doesn't look like Newt Gingrich is doing their ratings ;-)

I'm not sure that Trump quoting an article or two makes an entire publication "below Infowars" (which is far further right and unreliable, on this and other scales that I've seen, like AllSides, which seems generally consistent, but doesn't list OAN); but again, I've never watched it.

Just askin'... would anyone be freaking out of another senior representative of a major university was seen in a non-employment-related photo wearing an MSNBC or Slate t-shirt?  Think there are any deans out there who might subscribe to Bipartisan Report (which I've also never seen, but can, ironically, be found much further out in the realm of high Bias and low reliability)?

Hard to say why the ratings are not capturing reality.   However, Trump does a lot more than quote an article or two.   Not only does he tweet his love for OAN often, he also has given OAN special access to White House press briefings.   Also at those briefings OAN has been unbelievable helpful at deflecting President Trump away from relevant COVID19 news and towards completely unfounded conspiracy theories.

In most administrations that would not be so awful, but this President seems very keen to embrace conspiracy theories rather than deal with reality.   

If you are from a community where thousands of people have died from coronavirus those conspiracy distractions have deadly consequences.

There is more out there, but if in doubt just realize that even Mike Gundy realized he couldn't actually defend his attire choice and he lives in Oklahoma.  Another clue is that when POTUS45 is upset with FoxNews or a FoxNews poll he has noted that OAN has been more loyal.

To the hypothetical...
I don't think any left-leaning position is so directly linked to the deaths of thousands in African American communities, but if there was such an issue then I would suspect equivalent outrage is possible.

[Farm93]

Yeah, in light of the events from the last three weeks, clearly a bad move (esp looking at how the Florida State players and the Texas players are being active).  Also, no one should be under the impression that OAN is a valid bastion of journalism...it's a notch below Infowars as far as I can tell.

I came here to post the same article. Football coaches seem to be generally pretty conservative, which is fine. But this is a new low for Gundy, who's been involved with a lot of lows. OAN is basically a conspiracy website, and about as anti BLM as it comes. When you are a white coach and your livelihood depends largely on black football players, you have to have some type of reasoning ability.

Disclaimer: I've never actually watched OAN, but I have come across several (seemingly apolitical, but maybe I'm missing something?) references to the Ad Fontes Media "Media Bias Chart", so I just Googled the most recent version (5.0).  I was surprised to see OAN plotted virtually dead-center in their Reliability range (slightly closer to The Weather Channel than The National Enquirer) and slightly less Biased (and slightly more Reliable) than MSNBC!  Slate is apparently even less Reliable and also more Biased.  As a "reality check", they show Bloomberg, The New York Times and Al Jazeera in the neutral Bias range, so it doesn't look like Newt Gingrich is doing their ratings ;-)

I'm not sure that Trump quoting an article or two makes an entire publication "below Infowars" (which is far further right and unreliable, on this and other scales that I've seen, like AllSides, which seems generally consistent, but doesn't list OAN); but again, I've never watched it.

Just askin'... would anyone be freaking out of another senior representative of a major university was seen in a non-employment-related photo wearing an MSNBC or Slate t-shirt?  Think there are any deans out there who might subscribe to Bipartisan Report (which I've also never seen, but can, ironically, be found much further out in the realm of high Bias and low reliability)?

Hard to say why the ratings are not capturing reality.   However, Trump does a lot more than quote an article or two.   Not only does he tweet his love for OAN often, he also has given OAN special access to White House press briefings.   Also at those briefings OAN has been unbelievable helpful at deflecting President Trump away from relevant COVID19 news and towards completely unfounded conspiracy theories.

In most administrations that would not be so awful, but this President seems very keen to embrace conspiracy theories rather than deal with reality.   

If you are from a community where thousands of people have died from coronavirus those conspiracy distractions have deadly consequences.

There is more out there, but if in doubt just realize that even Mike Gundy realized he couldn't actually defend his attire choice and he lives in Oklahoma.  Another clue is that when POTUS45 is upset with FoxNews or a FoxNews poll he has noted that OAN has been more loyal.

To the hypothetical...
I don't think any left-leaning position is so directly linked to the deaths of thousands in African American communities, but if there was such an issue then I would suspect equivalent outrage is possible.