Originally posted by Raphael
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Much, if not all, or nearly all, of the "they're all biased" arguments I hear are not from those with an interest in unbiased reporting, but rather from those looking to justify their consumption of caution-quoted news from the most egregious offenders. It's "my wife winked at the neighbor" used to justify seeing the truck stop whore.
It's not honest, and honestly, it says more about oneself than it does about the wife, or even the roadway entrepreneur.
An actual concern about bias would be matched by movement toward the least biased sources.
We don't need to rely on third-party scorecards to determine bias, or, more typically, journalistic sloppiness. Clicking through is enough, whether we're talking about science reporting or the latest memo from partisan actors. Find the doi and then click through on the climate story, read the memo and then search the transcripts. And, where the stories end, stop forming opinions.
Approach every story as if you were going to report it yourself, and you'll find the bias that really matters when reading the news is the bias you bring to the news yourself.
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