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When I was in high school, a teacher I had for a video journalism course emphatically hammered home the point that there was no such thing as unbiased media: th
by lr4444lr 10y ago
When I was in high school, a teacher I had for a video journalism course emphatically hammered home the point that there was no such thing as unbiased media: the stories you choose to cover or not cover, the use of pretty much any adjective, the phrasing of the headline, placement, abundance of quotes, frequency of consulting expert opinions, use of statistics of varying quality, etc. create an inescapable subjectivity.
For quite some time I scoffed at this as social marxist nonsense useful to launch any kind of conspiracy theory, but there might be a point to it in smaller scales, especially if the editors are beholden to the almighty gods of clicks and page views from an audience hungry for a narrative.
- anigbrowl 10y agoBias always exists to some extent but not all media are equally biased or biased in the same way. Citing this as a reason to dismiss any media content that makes you uncomfortable is itself an example of subjective bias. You can aim for a kind of objectivity by attempting to maximize the predictive power of the information that you convey to as wide an audience as possible.