the idea of unbiased journalism is becoming something we don't even respect any more The problem isn't (entirely) biased news. It's that society's current rel

the idea of unbiased journalism is becoming something we don't even respect any more The problem isn't (entirely) biased news. It's that society's current relationship with it is unhealthy. These subreddits just bury stories without helping their readers understand how to identify and digest bad news sources/articles/etc... It only perpetuates the false notion that unbiased news can exist, and that unbiased is generally regarded as "doesn't rock the boat," regardless of what bias actually goes into the reporting. (If "unbiased" reporting could exist, it wouldn't have to walk back any meaningful points made just to teeter in the middle of the national political spectrum...) I read a column a while back that really helped me to process news, "Hey, MSM: All Journalism is Advocacy Journalism" by Matt Taibbi [0]. Funny enough, digging that link up it also turns out to be a reaction to a reaction to Greenwald. You can still get information out of biased sources. I'd expect Fox News to be banned outright on that subreddit, but if they managed to get a scoop on (for example) the Chris Christy trainwreck I'd still want to read that. I wouldn't, and shouldn't, need CNN to synthesize another reporter's reporting for me, I need their reporting for further developments and to help me synthesize and contextualize Fox's reporting en masse. [0] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/hey-msm-all-journalism-is-advocacy-journalism-20130627 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/hey-msm-...