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There is no such thing as unbiased reporting of facts. People not understanding that, and the fact that there is nothing inherently wrong with bias, is a big pa
by LastTrain 2y ago
There is no such thing as unbiased reporting of facts. People not understanding that, and the fact that there is nothing inherently wrong with bias, is a big part of the problem.
- sheepdestroyer 2y agoObjective reality, it exists. Telling your audience obviously false / anti-factual lies, without any regard for fact checking, is not just "biased reporting". And it is inherently wrong, malevolent, evil. Anyway, I'm amazed each time I hear right wingers who did not get the joke seemingly complaining about how Reality has a left leaning political bias...
- LastTrain 2y agoLying is not the same as bias. That is the problem, people often conflate the two.
- ANarrativeApe 2y agoIs that a fact?
- card_zero 2y agoPresumably yes but subject to benign bias.
- pyrale 2y agoYou can be biased but adopt a systematic methodology and a deontology system, both of which help journalists mitigate their bias and produce quality reporting. The big issue with the current news ecosystem and social media is their complete disregard for this methodology. By discarding the journalistic methodology, they make themselves propagandists, not journalists.
- SkyBelow 2y agoWhat if there is something inherently wrong with bias, but there is also no possibility to solve it. I see people operating under the idea that if there is something inherently wrong, then there must exist some solution to that inherent wrongness. What if the underlying issue is that there are flaws in humans that cannot be fixed and any attempt to manage is going to still leave some victims of the issue unprotected?