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I honestly can't see how this would work in practice... It quickly falls into a "who will watch the watchers" kind of situation... I'm trying to picture how it

I honestly can't see how this would work in practice... It quickly falls into a "who will watch the watchers" kind of situation... I'm trying to picture how it would work in practice. Say that there are two news organizations, one wildly pro-Trump, one Wildly anti-Trump. It's already clear that they are both biased and ignoring a lot of information. But wouldn't one group still be closer to the truth? How would anyone know which one?

consumer451 5y ago
That’s a very good point, and shows one of the limits of my line of thought. Though I don’t think it makes it entirely useless. Using your example, pro-Trump vs anti-Trump… one would have to wait until Trump is gone as POTUS and see how each news org treats the new POTUS. Maybe this analysis would only work over long periods of time. The other aspect of all of this that you made me think about is that bias is not necessarily bad. I am biased towards democracy, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Also, bias against something which is objectively "bad" is not a bad thing. edit: Maybe the solution here is to embrace bias, and state your biases openly.