Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
by corty on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:17AM
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There are freedom fighters and terrorists. There are fair trials and star chambers. There is information and propaganda. There are governments and regimes.
Both are true, and which term you use just depends on your point of view. Both are true, but not unbiased.
There is no proper objectivity outside of the sciences. Everything in culture, society and politics depends on an everchanging inconsistent and observer-dependent frame of reference. You can be kind-of objective if all of you and your local neighbourhood agree on a common frame of reference. But you always have to be aware of the lack of global objectivity.
So no, you can't have it both ways. You can't point to objective reporting and claim it has a bias, when in reality you mean that the reporting isn't showing your preferred bias.