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Re:Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about... by bawolff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:11AM (#27511881)
There's no such thing as pure anything. That doesn't mean we shouldn't strive towards the ideal.

Or to put another way, just because nobody is 100% a saint all the time, doesn't make being an asshole ok.

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Re:Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about... by bildung on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @03:19AM (#27512288)
Yes. But news should strive for thruth, not for objectivity. For example, if the president says something that is evidently false, the press IMO has the responsibility to say so, even if this is clearly biased towards the interests of the opposition.
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Re:Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about... by bawolff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:29PM (#27517779)
Objectivity is not the same as giving equal weight to all sides regardless of what they say, imo.
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