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There is nothing necessarily wrong with bias toward a specific side, unless you make the flawed assumption that the truth must be in the center.
by MattRix 5y ago
There is nothing necessarily wrong with bias toward a specific side, unless you make the flawed assumption that the truth must be in the center.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoQuid est veritas? Politics is preference, talks of truth are usually a pretense to strengthen a reason for a given preference.
- iopq 5y agoHow about no bias towards any side? I know, it's never happened, but what if?
- hirundo 5y agoYou can't interpret any fact without an internal model of how the universe works. That model is a "side" and compared to any other model, has a difference called "bias". There is presumably one true model that matches reality best. You could call that "unbiased", but since nobody can reliably identify it, we're stuck with bias.
- iopq 5y agoThat's all very nice and all, but there's "bias from worldview" and then there's CNN
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- natch 5y agoThe truth is scattered around all points of the spectrum, left, right, center, and everywhere in between. The flawed assumption is thinking otherwise. In such a world it’s still wrong (non-optimal) to try to manipulate the news to make it seem all truth is on just one side.