Re:FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17...
by bb88 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:10PM
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This is the way these arguments usually go:
1. Reporters and editors cannot possibly be aware of their own bias because they have their own world view, through which they perceive their own reality.
2. Because reporters and their editors cannot be aware of their own biases, fundamentally all news is biased, intentionally or unintentionally.
Your argument depends upon #1 to be True. However, people can know their biases and adjust for it. But at the NYT, editors and reporters are aware of their internal biases, so #1 is actually False.
So then #2 leads to something like #3:
3. Fox News, while intentionally biased, provides balance to the obvious left leaning bias of the NYT because of #1 and #2 -- even if they don't fully vet their stories [1].
So personally I would prefer to get my news from people that research and report facts. Facts, in and of themselves, are unbiased.
1. Reporters and editors cannot possibly be aware of their own bias because they have their own world view, through which they perceive their own reality.
2. Because reporters and their editors cannot be aware of their own biases, fundamentally all news is biased, intentionally or unintentionally.
Your argument depends upon #1 to be True. However, people can know their biases and adjust for it. But at the NYT, editors and reporters are aware of their internal biases, so #1 is actually False.
So then #2 leads to something like #3:
3. Fox News, while intentionally biased, provides balance to the obvious left leaning bias of the NYT because of #1 and #2 -- even if they don't fully vet their stories [1].
So personally I would prefer to get my news from people that research and report facts. Facts, in and of themselves, are unbiased.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Fox_News_r...