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I hear this often from engineering friends - if you cannot be unbiased, the problem is unsolvable. This gets applied to things like moral dilemmas in law or, li
by jakewins 10y ago
I hear this often from engineering friends - if you cannot be unbiased, the problem is unsolvable. This gets applied to things like moral dilemmas in law or, like you do here, to news reporting.
Meanwhile, the actual professions of journalism and law have hundreds of years of thought put into how to approach this problem. The courts navigate and make judgement calls every day on provably subjective topics. There's a reason the first thing they teach you in J-school is that there's no such thing as "unbiased".
Hence, I entirely disagree with you, and instead think it's awful that we've allowed the nations largest media institution to pretend to be an "unbiased platform" for this long.
- ebola1717 10y agoPlus, tech makes gray decisions like this all the time. Youtube's Content ID system, for example. Or any porn/spam classifier.