News Media Bias
The cluster discusses the pervasiveness of bias in news outlets and journalism, the impossibility of truly unbiased reporting, and strategies like consuming multiple sources or using bias-detection tools to form a balanced view.
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Seems your news outlets are a bit biased.
Maybe your news sources are a little biased.
There is no such thing as unbiased news; there is only less-biased news.What this product seems to be calling 'unbiased' is based a single bias, which is overt political bias. There are many other biases that can impact news reporting.Overt political bias is probably the least worrying thing in a democracy as it is easy to identify and weigh accordingly.The more worrying biases that exist in news reporting currently are those that are more covert such as financial incentives a
Biased Journalism not taken far enough. Either be explicit about your bias or don't. In between feels gross.
There is no such thing as neutral and unbiased news. Journalists often claim such thing is possible, but it isn't making things worse by hiding their bias. You can try to find out in what direction the author/news outlet is usually biased to and try to subtract that, try to find multiple sources to get views from different angles, try to find reliable hard facts.
Unbiased is the wrong premise.Bias will always exist, so identifying it and consuming the spectrum is the way to see it. Seeing bias is better than avoiding it, as it helps you understand others perspectives (as they consume biased news.)allsides.com is good. Modo News is good.
Wow! Unbiased reporting not so much.
Media bias is one of the main reasons we created this app. These days, bias is inescapable. Different media entities are echoing different realities about the same event. And people are taking journalists' opinions as facts. This is affecting our perception of the truth and polarizing the country.After tons of research, we have established a set of guidelines to tackle different forms of bias. Our AI flags everything from extreme adjectives with positive negative connotations to opinions
This is great - Finally something that clearly highlights the implicit editorial bias in all news sources..Thanks for share.
There are biases depending on the 'side' of US political spectrum a given medium happens to be supporting. In this case, the best you can do is to account for inherent bias and ingest the information accordingly.