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You seem to be suggesting that the only valid opinions on any topic are those that originate from a person without any bias but who is somehow intimately inform
by gwright 13y ago
You seem to be suggesting that the only valid opinions on any topic are those that originate from a person without any bias but who is somehow intimately informed about the topic.
Those people generally don't exist. The best we can hope for is some reasonable amount of transparency along with a variety of opinions.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoThe best we can hope for is people attempting to take their personal bias out of reporting and investigate the full story, especially when what happened contradicts their worldview. Real journalists do this. News Corporation (Fox News/WSJ/etc) specifically does the opposite.
- gwright 13y agoYou are not being very observant if you think that Fox News, WSJ, etc. are the only media outlets that have a bias.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoI don't think that and never claimed it. In fact, I've done the opposite if you look through this thread. But saying 'others post blatantly biased articles, too' doesn't excuse the fact that the Wall Street Journal is very obviously doing it here.
- gwright 13y agoWhen you say real journalists take their personal biases out of their reporting and then immediately say that Fox News does the opposite, that certainly comes across as suggesting that Fox News doesn't do real journalism and that its competitors do. And I certainly didn't say "others post blatantly biased articles" so I don't know why you used quotes when you summarized (and distorted) my comment. Honestly, I think the term 'bias' is thrown around a bit too much and has a pejorative sense that shuts down discussion of the underlying ideas. Subjective vs. objective is probably a better way of characterizing news reports although I would argue that when you are talking about broad public policy it is pretty difficult to be 100% objective since everyone is affected by broad public policy.