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I enjoyed this blog post but, broadly, conversation on the topic of news epistemology has always irked me because i detect an implication that there exists an "
by ixtli 3y ago
I enjoyed this blog post but, broadly, conversation on the topic of news epistemology has always irked me because i detect an implication that there exists an "unbiased" recounting of events. This is naive.
- djbusby 3y agoJust the Facts as reported by Joe Friday (is a show I wish existed and I would watch)
- metabagel 3y agoThe PBS Newshour does a pretty good job of that, but it’s not sensationalistic, so most people won’t watch it. It’s dry and kind of boring.
- ixtli 3y agodry and boring can really be a good thing, though.
- mrguyorama 3y agoHow do you define "facts"?
- Ensorceled 3y ago> conversation on the topic of news epistemology has always irked me because i detect an implication that there exists an "unbiased" recounting of events. This is naive. I would say, rather, that there is an ideal unbiased recounting of events that is approached with various degrees of fidelity and we all sort of agree to call reporting that is reasonably close to this ideal as "unbiased". This is not naïveté, since pretty much everyone readily admits that truly unbiased reporting is impossible. But some people are doing their best and some ... are not.
- RationalDino 3y agoWhile I believe that there is an unbiased truth, my conclusion is that it is not necessarily something that I can discover. I do not believe that those in the news are in a significantly better position to discover it either. This strongly suggests that we should assume that all recountings are biased. It is just sometimes easier to find the bias than it is at other times.
- 082349872349872 3y agoSee "In a Grove": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403135
- mistermann 3y agoIt is less so that it is impossible than that our culture utterly rejects such approaches.