4 ms·

While this may be a mathematically valid thing, it doesn't make it correct. I submit that there may be left-right filter bubbles, but there is a growing flow fr

While this may be a mathematically valid thing, it doesn't make it correct. I submit that there may be left-right filter bubbles, but there is a growing flow from ignorant to well-informed, and that flow is right to left. This article is just a mathematical means of implementing the equal time rule (1), or the fairness doctrine (2). If anything, 30+ years of broadcast TV has shown us that these policies lead to stagnation of public though, not growth. NPR, for one, has attempted to recognize this and move the pendulum back toward the Enlightened pursuit of truth(3). (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine (3) http://ethics.npr.org/category/a1-accuracy/ http://ethics.npr.org/category/a1-accuracy/

niels_olson 13y ago
Gotta love it a well-cited competing view on an article about tolerating competing views gets downvoted.
- mcguire 13y ago
  Well-cited? You made a manifestly false assertion, then linked to the definition of two terms and an article that specifically disagrees with your assertion: "For more accurate stories, seek diverse perspectives. "We tell stronger, better-informed stories when we sample a variety of perspectives on what we’re covering. The best reporting draws on the experiences of experts, influential figures and laypeople from across the demographic spectrum. "A story could accurately claim, for example, that unemployment in the Washington, D.C., metro area in the fall of 2011 was quite a bit lower than the national average. But that fact would probably ring false to a resident of the city proper, where the unemployment rate was considerably higher at the time. And such a story would describe a world vastly different from D.C.’s Ward 8, which had one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Any of these vantage points could make for a technically accurate story. But drawing on all of them allows for a much more nuanced report. Means and medians can be informative, but true insight often comes from surveying experiences all along the spectrum."

niels_olson 13y ago

Gotta love it a well-cited competing view on an article about tolerating competing views gets downvoted.

mcguire 13y ago
Well-cited? You made a manifestly false assertion, then linked to the definition of two terms and an article that specifically disagrees with your assertion: "For more accurate stories, seek diverse perspectives. "We tell stronger, better-informed stories when we sample a variety of perspectives on what we’re covering. The best reporting draws on the experiences of experts, influential figures and laypeople from across the demographic spectrum. "A story could accurately claim, for example, that unemployment in the Washington, D.C., metro area in the fall of 2011 was quite a bit lower than the national average. But that fact would probably ring false to a resident of the city proper, where the unemployment rate was considerably higher at the time. And such a story would describe a world vastly different from D.C.’s Ward 8, which had one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Any of these vantage points could make for a technically accurate story. But drawing on all of them allows for a much more nuanced report. Means and medians can be informative, but true insight often comes from surveying experiences all along the spectrum."