>For instance, if you're a news reporter covering politics, you _shouldn't_ be going around telling people your personal opinions about politics. In fact, doing

>For instance, if you're a news reporter covering politics, you _shouldn't_ be going around telling people your personal opinions about politics. In fact, doing so can get you quickly kicked off the beat, because you're (ostensibly) supposed to be objective and unbiased. This is crazy. I am not saying you are crazy, or anything negative, let us be clear. First, TYT as example. They are unabashedly progressive and they make that extremely clear. Secondly, they do a great job of producing high clarity material with fact and opinion well differentiated. Many similar entities claim low or no bias, objectivity, fairness, and so forth. However, none of this things are actually true! There is always bias. And objective material takes a number of us working over a sustained amount of time to produce. That does not happen on a cable news cycle. As a kid, we received education on these things. Bias, what it is, how to identify it and whether it was honestly and clearly made known. Compare and contrast news written from a labor point of view (very hard to find these days in the US), vs big business POV. Same goes for religion, establishment vs reformers, you get the idea. The single most important aspect in all of this is clarity. Being able to discern facts and opinion is what will inform us as well as speak to bias so we know to get a more inclusive set of sources to draw on in our own thinking. Today, most media is a mess on these fronts, and it can be boiled down thus: 1) Low clarity. 2) Bias not clearly stated, and things like disclosure not part of strong norms. 3) "Always two sides to every story" (no, there are facts, and what people think they mean) here, we see nuts paired with scientists, "to be objective" and it is laughable, if it were not so common and damaging. 4) objectivity conflated with neutrality (major contributor to low clarity and bias ID problems) A reporter covering politics will have political opinions and they should be known and well differentiated from the facts so reported. This idea of a neutral/objective press, coupled with chronic low clarity seen today, is laughable! And it does us all great harm too. As for going to HR... that should be reserved for the how of discussion, not the what of it.