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The irony may be that the best way to get paid is to be biased.
by workerIbe 9y ago
The irony may be that the best way to get paid is to be biased.
- fgonzag 9y agoI totally agree. People are more likely to pay to read the news they are biased to. So all forms of media have a high incentive to bias their content towards their consumer's point of view.
- exelius 9y agoThere will always be a market segment that values the unbiased truth.
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- Karunamon 9y agoGiven the human bias for sources that confirm rather than challenge preconceived notions, I'd imagine that market segment is quite small. Even among people that say they want such a service! And on top of that, there's a difference between news and data. "xx people were run over by a truck in an attack group Y has claimed responsibility for" is a (poor) headline, not an article. Once you expand out beyond a reading of simple facts, bias creeps in everywhere from choice of sources to choice of words to quantity of coverage. Worse, simple facts are rarely interesting or actionable. People want analysis.