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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Bias in reporting?

This line in the article pretty much says it all:

"...is it actually possible to remain completely unbiased on a matter of such high contention?"

Amen to that... to my mind, no. It is definitely not possible to maintain a completely unbiased report. But that is not to say that we should simply throw up our hands and allow ridiculous slanting of media. It is still incumbent upon the media sources to maintain as much unbiased reporting as possible. It is simply something that we as readers and/or consumers of this information need to be aware of; perspective plays a role in the creation and interpretation of every medium, and news media can be the most dynamic. It is a responsibility that falls upon each person, and cannot be sloughed off by blaming the preponderance of biased media. We are the ones that need to educate ourselves on the sources from which we get our news, and choose a broad spectrum of those sources in order to piece together a more realistic picture of the world around us.

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