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Originally Posted by Dutch
The media reports the facts if you watch a lot of media. They all just report the facts they want you to know based on their bias.
Jim is suggesting some sort of ethics in reporting, which either is long gone or never existed anyway.
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That's why we don't trust them. When I was in journalism school, we were taught to write editorials from a very different perspective. We could only write about what we didn't believe. That way, we wouldn't ignore important facts that might invalidate the opinion.
It seems like a cop out to say that there's no ethics possible in reporting. Just because some figurative ideal neutrality is impossible doesn't mean you can't be conscious of bias and do your best to eliminate it.
That's not to say what The National Review wrote is invalid. It's in how they presented it. That point might seem trivial, but it means everything.