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"that journalism needs to be rebuilt around that moral clarity, which means ending its attempt to see all sides of a story, when there is only one, and dropping

• rowawey 6y ago
  Bias, like farting, is inescapable. We should just try to minimize it. Also, a reporter with integrity won't fall into either trap of agenda-driven reporting or presenting a false equivalency, but will provide necessary context, won't gin-up adjectives disproportionately, and will provide nuanced contrary details because there is no "correct" side that must censor everything else. The more I've seen of Taibi, the more I dislike his remedial overconfidence and lack of nuance. Chris Hedges OTOH was thrown out of the establishment for expressing an inconvenient truth and demonstrating integrity. The Jesse Ventura's, Jimmy Dore's, Ralph Nader's, and Phil Donahue's also languish as journalistic dissidents while the know-nothing Rachel Maddow's, Anderson Cooper's, and Matt Taibi's so confidentially opine from positions of privilege while squandering their good luck. Maybe if they weren't paid millions or worked for establishment corporations, they'd inhabit a filter bubble closer to Earth?