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Re:California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Mid... by whyenot on Friday October 25, 2024 @07:27PM (#41950984)
Reason Magazine explicitly advocates for the political positions of the Libertarian party and this article was written (in 2023) by one of the magazine's editors. That doesn't mean the articles they publish are not interesting or insightful; many are. It does mean they will emphasize those facts that support their position and minimize or elide facts that do not.
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Re:California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Mid... by lolinder on Friday October 25, 2024 @07:53PM (#41951214)
This kind of disclaimer should be kept in mind for all media sources, perhaps especially those whose political leanings aren't spelled out explicitly on their About page [0].

[0] https://reason.com/about/

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Re:California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Mid... by zahlman on Friday October 25, 2024 @07:52PM (#41951205)
... Are the biases of Reason not familiar to the HN crowd? It doesn't seem like disclaimers like this are treated as necessary for most other partisan publications.

If you're aware of facts that undermine the argument being made here, or have good reason (heh) as to why their argument is not well supported in this case, it would be better to present those things explicitly.

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