Emil O W Kirkegaard

That’s astonishingly antisemitic. How does it matter that they’re Jewish? Why report their religion & not their sex or sexual orientation?

There is nothing anti-Jewish in my tweet. You must be reading something I'm not reading.

It does certainly sound anti-Jewish in that context, as it (at least in my eyes) implies that the fact that it was written by a Jew will affect your judgment of the content.

Ignoring the sender of the message is ignoring relevant information. There's the possibility of self-serving biases. There's a lot of Jews in the media. In their favor to argue media are not biased, so we expect bias. This is not a criticism of Jews.

If you read newsletters by oil companies, do you ignore the fact that they were published by oil companies? Why/why not? What about [your least favorite political party]?

One cannot ignore the sender because one cannot be an expert on absolutely every issue. Expertise is limited, if at least, by the time it takes to study a topic in detail. One must set the prior accordingly.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/932571029993648128 …

Thanks for the link, both to the book and the controversy! I'll have to look into the methodology a bit more, but in any case, I'd be willing to assume that the median journalist is left of the median voter>

the question is what that means as to whether the media properly reflect reality as is (vs as perceived by the median person, which need not align with the facts), which is my definition of bias>

though the author seems to embrace a different one, which is fine, it just needs to be interpreted in the appropriate manner.