"Who's the Big Guy"

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(04-13-2022, 01:41 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I never did say that, or anything close to it.

Yeah you're right. I should have phrased that differently. Imho it's rather where your line of argueing would lead to in its ultimate consequence.
Or say, in the end I do not need to know about the perfectly unbiased news site and still can call FOX untrustworthy.

(04-13-2022, 01:41 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: 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.

Yeah. Imho, there's just no money in that. Which, on the one hand, is a consequence of letting the news market be a free market. We, for example, have a state run news agency (on state run TV). Which is not perfect in any way, but it still sets a certain benchmark the main US media market is missing greatly.
On the other hand, many more people these days are way more set in their often quite one-sided initial belief system and way more people than earlier would refute objective news that don't confirm these beliefs as being biased. Today, one gets confirmation so easily through the internet, and to the consumer this is more pleasant than being challenged. And in the end, media stations where ratings are everything will react to that (by making pleasant confirmation news). Have to from a commercial standpoint, actually.