Accepting bias


Journalists are biased and they might as well admit it

"Rather than pretending bias doesn’t exist — which is what the old-world journalistic notion of “objectivity” does — bias should be considered a built-in flaw of an imperfect system. And if each of us, as news consumers, is aware of the flaws in the system, we can account for them when evaluating what we’re told by the media.

"Only journalists who don’t want you to know the full story will try to hide their beliefs from you. The honest ones will expose their biases to the world and let the public make informed evaluations of their work."
Evan Coyne Maloney, Bias & Objectivity, November 22, 2006

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - November 22, 2006 at 05:01 PM  Tag


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