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Old newspapers? Like segregation era? Super objective times.
by godelzilla 6y ago
Old newspapers? Like segregation era? Super objective times.
- doctorOb 6y agoOr, more charitably, the 90s?
- watwut 6y agoThis is one journalist using 1996 is example of biased reporting https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1280862103297875969 https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/12808621032978759...
- koheripbal 6y agoAn anecdote is not evidence of anything.
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoBiased reporting has always existed - again, no one is claiming utopia without bias. The idea is to have enough trustworthy sources for different points of view, arguing in good faith, for certain positions. Now biased reporting comes from a few sources - the polarization is evidence of this.
- watwut 6y agoBut my example was precisely about lack of differing opinions. The issue there was consensus in media, that made it look like there is clear agreement of experts about something where it was not the case.
- Nasrudith 6y agoThe funny thing is that newspapers often started that way in the US. The reason you would often see the <Town/City Name> Democratic/Republician Gazzette newspapers? Because the ones who could afford to publish small town news were political parties. They did wear their motives explicitly and the eras were hella corrupt but it has precedent.
- koheripbal 6y ago1980s