Earlier quoted context omitted.
Replace “news articles” with “facts” and you’re closer to the point, but then how useful would that input be to you?
The difference is that facts are harder to consume than news articles, as the latter is essentially packaged and distributed collections of the former. Furthermore, the intent of parent's bias averaging, as I understand it, is... 1) There are a finite number of major biases axes in mass media (e.g. political parties, wealthy-poor, conservative-liberal, etc.), ergo averaging these out is a helpful reduction of major b…
I don’t know if it is clear but I really meant it that unbiased news is not a possibility due to fundamental limitations of information theory and finiteness of individual information processing capabilities; self-awareness and bias transparency is the only way.
> helpful reduction of major biases
Only if those major biases are opposite between media.
Imagine biases as vectors pointing in arbitrary directions. Best case is when bias vector in one cluster is compensated by exactly opposite bias vector in another cluster, but how often do you expect that to happen? A more typical scenario is a vector pointing in merely a different, rather than opposite, direction. A worst-case scenario, and also common (because bias manifests itself in selection if facts to report, and most sources report on the same events), is when all bias vectors point in a similar direction.