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The point of the news is to promote a narrative. They choose what to cover, and what to not cover. There is no way to do news that is free from ideological bias
by deltarholamda 5y ago
The point of the news is to promote a narrative. They choose what to cover, and what to not cover. There is no way to do news that is free from ideological bias. And in large, corporatized media, the ideological focus is often driven by a single person, or very few people.
The purported Twain quote, "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed; if you do, you're misinformed," applies here.
People love to do comparisons to this or that news organization, "Fox News viewers are most likely to have a Beanie Baby collection," or "MSNBC viewers are most likely to believe that Elvis was an alien," or whatever. It doesn't mean much. They are all entertainment platforms that sell ads.
- alasdair_ 5y agoI’ve found the best sources of news tend to be finance/business focused because the readership generally wants to know what actually happened so they can make business decisions and they can’t make those decisions if the news is heavily biased one way or the other. There is still bias, of course - The Economist makes it clear they are pro-free market, for example - but they tend to give a decent overview of the most salient facts and they write for a global audience.