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Even if one claims "no agenda" one can stil find an editorial agenda. When you choose to highlight someone way out st the edge of the Overton window (ahem), how
by egypturnash 9y ago
Even if one claims "no agenda" one can stil find an editorial agenda. When you choose to highlight someone way out st the edge of the Overton window (ahem), how do you treat them? And how far from the current "center" do you cast your net for stories?
Fuck that. Everyone has a bias. Admit it. Let your readers know who you’re pulling for. Let them know who’s paying to keep the lights on at the offices and how much of a blind eye you have to turn to any interesting misdeeds those folks may perpetrate.
(And in that spirit: I have lately taken to half-jokingly calling myself a "social justice witch". So now you can get an idea of my biases. What're yours, which way do you want to pull the thing you named yourself after?)
- Overtonwindow 9y agoI wouldn't mind that actually! My first response to your comment was to say "In the Morning to YOu!" and the second was to smile at the pun. I wouldn't mind if a journalist puts at the bottom of their reporting So and So is a registered republican, and votes for xyz in the last presidential election. Etc. I would feel so much, much better about of the news, because then I can start to understand which news I can trust, and which to be wary of, but being me, I'd read it all anyways.