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I'm not sure there's a journalism outfit left without some degree of partisan bent.
by tvanantwerp 8y ago
I'm not sure there's a journalism outfit left without some degree of partisan bent.
- ceejayoz 8y agoThe size of that partisan (or in Reason's case, ideological more than partisan) bent varies enormously.
- naravara 8y agoOf the major outlets only Fox News has a clearly partisan bent. There are many ideological rags (Reason is Libertarian, Jacobin is Socialist, etc.) But the majority of major news sources are non-partisan and non-ideological to the point of giving undue weight to completely foolishness just because the foolishness benefits a certain party. They have systemic biases, owing to being staffed largely by elite educated urbanites with close proximity to power. That's different from being partisan. Where parties are concerned this bias tends to cut against them both in different ways.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoThis is correct. A news outlet isn't partisan if it treats evolution and climate change as real things without "teaching the controversy," despite what fair and balanced Fox or unreasonable Reason would have you believe.