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In response to
""A news network should be balanced and unbiased" shouldn't be a controversial opinion... -- nm"
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Ender
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The problem is that fair and unbiased does not jive with "balanced" any more. One party (with the exception of a few individuals that you can count
Posted by
pmb (aka pmb)
Sep 3 '22, 11:55
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on one hand) is not acting in good faith. To be "balanced" is to give equal weight to their positions and statements. That is inherently not fair and unbiased since it is generally filled with lies and false equivalencies. It's the problem that media has had for a long time, but reached a peak with Trump.
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