"Who's the Big Guy"

[SunsetBengal]

(04-13-2022, 01:25 PM)hollodero Wrote: Well, I for one deem no news source to be unbiased. To some extent, this to me just is inherently unavoidable. You have journalists and humans following the news and politics intensely, there will be opinions about many of that and they will shine through.

Your statement reads like saying, well since there's no completely unbiased reporting, one source is as good or bad as the other and it does not matter. I'd say there are nuances. Eg. CNN imho is quite biased, but in general they have at least the facts straight and they at times at least try to let people from the other side of topics have their say. And they can sure critizise Biden and Democrats.  FOX, on the other hand, is a 'we hate everything liberal' show, where opinions are sold as undisputable facts all the time and no one (since Wallace, who I genuinely liked, is gone) had anything but unwavering praise for Trump.


As a foreigner who used to have lots of issues with our own media - I feel almost every news source in my country is more unbiased than almost every US source. Plus most serious German outlets, or BBC, come quite close to being unbiased, especially in comparison.

I never did say that, or anything close to it.

What I will offer is that back in the 1990's, when I was taking Journalism classes en route to a Mass Communications degree, our journalism professor stood by one principle.  In a nutshell, that principle was "It's not our job to shape people's opinions.  We are to report the facts/events, and allow the reader/listener to make up their own minds on what to think of it.".

It would be nice to see the entire news media industry start trending back that direction.