The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our media, But in ourselves, that we are fakenewsed. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/upshot/biased-news-media-or-biased-readers-an-experiment-on-trust.html …
You’re misunderstanding the methodology I think. They’re comparing the group that new the media brand to the group that didn’t and correlating the delta to declared bias. The blind group had its brand bias factored out.
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That's the assumption I find dubious. . E.g., why not say the control group lacks crucial information to properly judge / assess bias? Sure, "more partisan => source info inc. rating of bias", but why not say this is actually *correct*. Absent facts, "bias" has unclear meaning.
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If random person says "we must respect due process" I might rate this is "unbiased", but if you then tell me that the random person is a college male that has just been accused of sexual assault, my judgement of bias goes up. But does this actually mean I am more biased?
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