2/ Truly "objective" reporting demands that each and every consumer explore the whole terrain themselves because unorganized collections of facts don't tell a useful story (ask any historian). Plus, narrative-free coverage isn't even possible -- what gets covered *is* subjective.
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3/ The best we can hope for in media is good mediation *through* high-quality narratives. That is: Does a particular outlet reliably produce models of reality that allow non-experts to understand aspects of the world around them given their varying constraints?
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4/ Asked that way begs the obvious follow up: In an environment that can't even call racist behavior and expressions "racist" which firms are reliable? Kind feels like they're cartographers who collectively decided, "fuck it, I don't want to draw any of the dangerous cliffs."
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