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What should it mean for a media company to be "unbiased"? Should it try to reflect the average of:

Political parties
12.8%
Scientists
29.6%
Citizens
27.8%
'Yes' and 'no'
29.9%

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8:44 AM · Oct 7, 2020Twitter Web App

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context: cnn.com has been running very anti-Trump-handling-of-COVID headlines. I'm guessing they see themselves as responding to scientific consensus rather than political middleground. (Though, of course, science by default answers what is not what should be.)

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To focus on facts and not opinion pieces

Whatsup - The Purple Whale

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Just this ^

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A bias is a distortion of the facts imo. Stick to the facts is what they should do.

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I write for

which is supposed to provide unbiased news. It's really really tough because even if you report just the facts, the bias is revealed in the stories I and others choose to write about, even if the content of those stories is as objective as possible.

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It should reflect objective truth.

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reflecting any of these party's is by default a bias via demographic... unbiased is unbiased, you pander to nobody besides the truth...we are too comfortable with bending truth into lie at the mercy of sensationalism. case and point - Nick sandman at covington

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None of the above. The average of anything will be biased, just differently biased depending on which average you choose. For anything except op-eds, it should present all facts and arguments without attempting to draw conclusions or an "average".

Haribaldi

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Stick to facts and only suffer the bias they subconsciously have.

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Tbf media is complete fucked right now. It works purely based of audience and pushes narrative that audience wants. Otherwise people will switch to the media which does it. And it won’t unfuck, because audience is reason fpr bias and polarization in the first place ...

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... So being media you do whatever your TA tells you. If you (as a reader) want unbiased opinion - read both polarized sides. It would fuck with your brain and disgust you (as you are opinionated too). And better thing - do not read news. They are useless, as most ...

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