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I don't see how an independent press striving for impartiality is somehow maintaining the status quo. It's just trying to report whatever news it has, which may
by goatlover 2y ago
I don't see how an independent press striving for impartiality is somehow maintaining the status quo. It's just trying to report whatever news it has, which may or may not be challenging to the status quo. The alternative is propaganda.
Also, I don't know why the status quo is inherently a bad thing, wouldn't it all depend on what that status quo was in relation to whatever issue? Shouldn't we ant a society where the status quo is optimal? Not simply being contrarians.
- lazide 2y agoBeing relative to the status quo means the news would be focused on maintaining the current state, regardless of if it is optimal or not (and optimal for whom, anyway?).
- Jensson 2y agoNo, focused on maintaining current state would be partial to maintaining the current state so would say that any change is bad. An impartial news would talk about positives of different changes, not say that change is bad, so no it isn't biased towards status quo.
- lazide 2y agoYou might want to read the parent comment.