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When I was a teenager, I used to listen to all sorts of news broadcasts on Shortwave radio. I used to listen to the same news story told by five or six different propaganda outlets.
From that experience I developed a very finely tuned ear to bias in news reporting. I find it the height of arrogance that any group would claim to be unbiased. This means I rate CNN about as well as I would rate FOX. In any case, I do not trust any popular news outlets to deliver accurate news about subjects that matter to me.
The bias is usually anti-technological, over-simplified, ignorant twaddle. Journalists want to interpret legislation for the masses and summarize it in to nice sweet little sound bites. And while that is undeniably popular, real life ain’t like that.
The real story is usually far more complex than what a Journalist with barely a high school physics and math background can understand.
I also suspect that many journalists do not understand the philosophical and practical principles behind the political wheeling and dealing. Instead they revert to the old tried and true: making a horse race out of vote counting instead of attempting to shine a more nuanced light on things.
The real problem is not bias. It’s the aim toward the lowest common denominator of societal comprehension.
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