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Post by gwright » Sun, Aug 25, 2013, 5:37 AM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #113

gwright wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are not being very observant if you think that Fox News, WSJ, etc. are the only media outlets that have a bias.

I don't think that and never claimed it. In fact, I've done the opposite if you look through this thread. But saying 'others post blatantly biased articles, too' doesn't excuse the fact that the Wall Street Journal is very obviously doing it here.

When you say real journalists take their personal biases out of their reporting and then immediately say that Fox News does the opposite, that certainly comes across as suggesting that Fox News doesn't do real journalism and that its competitors do.

And I certainly didn't say "others post blatantly biased articles" so I don't know why you used quotes when you summarized (and distorted) my comment.

Honestly, I think the term 'bias' is thrown around a bit too much and has a pejorative sense that shuts down discussion of the underlying ideas. Subjective vs. objective is probably a better way of characterizing news reports although I would argue that when you are talking about broad public policy it is pretty difficult to be 100% objective since everyone is affected by broad public policy.