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That is the point. Simply by choosing which facts to mention and which to omit you can create an extremely biased news piece.
by diego 10y ago
That is the point. Simply by choosing which facts to mention and which to omit you can create an extremely biased news piece.
- parsnips 10y agoOmission of facts is not reporting the facts. That's the point.
- NikolaeVarius 10y agoYes it is. How the hell do you report ALL the facts in any scenario? Any publication in existance will have to pick and choose what to report in order to keep a article to a manageable level. Do you think Scientific Abstracts are all factually correct? Hell no. There is actually a very well known issue with scientific experiments and articles where scientists will simply repeat experiments until they get a result that is within acceptable p-values and simply submit an article on that one experiment, ignoring every single time it was wrong.
- enraged_camel 10y agoYou don't need to report ALL the facts. You just need to report the pertinent ones. And the fact that domestic radiation is not fatal is pretty fucking pertinent to the passage in the OP.
- JetSpiegel 10y agoThen any news piece must asymptotically approach infinite words. Remember to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.