The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our media,
But in ourselves, that we are fakenewsed.
nytimes.com/2018/09/26/ups
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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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But the proposition “we must respect due process” does not become less true simply because someone who currently benefits from it is bringing it up. We are not judging the trustworthiness of the speaker here but the statement, which can be somewhat independently assessed.
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Because they didn’t give the actual information in the article a chance. You’re arguing that derp is good basically. That having more heavily weighted priors is always better. A narrower form of Taleb’s Lindy-effect heuristic: Ignore news, read Greek classics. Which I think is bs
It’s often better. It’s good citizenship to question potential bias of a source before taking their facts at face value. Whether the bias readers assume of their media is true or false is a separate question.

