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> The narratives used to characterize that data point vary based on the biases of the news institution, but either way it (more often than not) paints a distort
by tivert 3y ago
> The narratives used to characterize that data point vary based on the biases of the news institution, but either way it (more often than not) paints a distorted picture relative to the macro reality.
That's true, but I'd dispute that some kind of objective understanding of "macro reality" through "data" is even possible or practical outside a few narrow areas.
- Capricorn2481 3y agoAnd who said data can't be biased, anyway? It most often is
- bhupy 3y agoTo be clear, there is certainly a spectrum/degree for bias. The best kind of news/journalism informs readers based on factually accurate and unbiased data — and perhaps uses noteworthy current events and human interest anecdotes to corroborate that data. A worse kind of news/journalism partially misinforms readers by presenting factually accurate data in a biased way. The worst kind of news/journalism entirely misinforms readers by presenting an anecdote (or a statistically insignificant collection of anecdotes). Unfortunately the majority of news today (at least in the US) falls into that 3rd bucket.