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BIAS ALERT
I try to begin discussions on controversial topics by announcing my bias. I think it is helpful to the other party and to myself. It helps the other party prepare to recognize such biases in my statements and correct for them. It helps me in my attempt to correct for them.
Regarding the topic of News Media Bias, here is my announcement:
- I think that ALL the individuals of the News Media are capable of bias, depending the on report, and that they OFTEN do not correct for their biases so that OFTEN individual reports are distorted to varying degrees by their biases.
- I think that as the ratio of the members of the News Media who influence the final news reports (eg, editors, reporters) is politically skewed to the left, the cumulative effect of those reports is biased in the same way.
- I think that the cumulative effect of unacknowledged biases in new reporting is more harmful than the few instances of outright duplicity.
- Etc.
Copyright 2003 by John A. Eyon |