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Re:U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent by everdrive on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:19PM (#24495613)
Seconded. Bias, when predictable and understood is not even a bad thing.
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Re:U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent by everybodyknows on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @03:03PM (#24496198)
It is a window into the culture of the source -- and often the only one accessible to us.

This is not to say that journalists should not strive to report without bias, they should do so, but rather that unbiased coverage is an ideal never rightly claimed as fully achieved.

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