Hamas Attacks Israel: 70 Israelis, 198 Palestinians Dead

[Dill]

(10-07-2023, 03:59 PM)pally Wrote: It is interesting to note that board opinions on coverage follow party lines.  Everyone reads into the coverage what their personal biases want them to see.

Some are "personally biased" towards ideals like "accurate description should preceded analysis," and "analysis should precede moral judgment" though, wouldn't you say? 

Also some deploy different value judgements, so that leads to different results consistent with those differences as well. (E.g., how one thinks about universal human rights plays a determinative role in individual judgment.)

But if you frame differing responses to coverage as just "personal biases" it sounds like nobody is doing any work beyond their first, uniformed hunch.

There is surely some difference between those who just bend every new event into confirmation of rigid, pre-existing ideological conclusions

and those who make understanding causes and conditions on the ground their first priority, so conclusions follow, rather than lead judgment.