What should it mean for a media company to be "unbiased"? Should it try to reflect the average of:
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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.)
Good journalists strive for the ‘truth,’ operating with the assumption that most people hold biases. But America is so divided at this point that simply reporting that truth, from a journalistic standpoint, will cause someone to shout ‘bias’ if they disagree with the conclusions.
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Case in point: the has a 150-year-long track record of the best reporting on Earth. Do they frequently find fault with the Trump administration? Yes, because their seasoned, refined journalistic practices lead them there. Do Trump and his supporters hate them for it? Yes
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That Trump has handled COVID badly is the political middleground.
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Pretty much the same is happening in my (euro) country. It's impossible to be unbiased but recently most journalism seems mission driven against trump, and treating every covid death as a national catastrophe. Very annoying tbh
Objectively speaking, trump talks a lot of crap but so does cnn. Cnn is so biased against him, it becomes unwatchable (at least to me)
That Trump handles Covid and pretty much every thing else very bad is the truth and journalists have to publish the truth. That's their job. The truth won't get changed by by stupid citizens who don't won't to believe it or by political parties who try to suppress the truth
CNN doesn’t even try to disguise that they are biased against Republicans. There is no reason to think they are in any way neutral.
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