that divvies up the responsibility this way normally, I think it's reasonable for that to be the way they work. 2/2
mainstream outlets attempt to avoid letting their perspective leak into reporting. This is a laudable goal.
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Nobody can prevent their perspective from "leaking" into their reporting. It's better to be honest about how they report!
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people can try to reduce it (and succeed often) and make it culturally important to reduce, or they can give up.
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*You can try to reduce it while being open about what it is, so that readers can understand the biases inherent in your reporting.*
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That is my point. It's all I'm arguing. The misuse of news pages because of the approach you're lauding is a huge problem.
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in what sense are news pages "misused"?
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They put forward perspectives (often subtly) that are masquerading as objective reality. I've been saying that this whole time.
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