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There's a certain irony in the OP accusing journalists of starting with a premise and working backwards, when the OP did it themself.
by simple_phrases 7y ago
There's a certain irony in the OP accusing journalists of starting with a premise and working backwards, when the OP did it themself.
- jrobn 7y agoThis is true of almost everything human created.
- mc32 7y agopresumably actual journalists would train against unconscious bias... maybe you're saying we can't expect they be any better than your average person on the street.
- Ntrails 7y agoI would argue that defending against Bias is the editors job, they are not there to catch typos!
- Mirioron 7y agoI don't really see that here though. He's over-generalizing, but you can't claim that some (many?) journalists don't do exactly what he mentioned. People expect what journalists write to be trustworthy, but too often what they write is not. Think back on the Covington kids saga. They were dragged through the mud and many journalists participated in it. If they get something like that so wrong, despite there being video evidence of the event online, then how are people supposed to trust what they write? Obviously not all organizations are as guilty of it. When I read something by Reuters I'm fairly confident of what I'm reading, but it's much less so with many others.