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Steve Shaw BS: Sources of unbiased information (60* d) RE: BS: Sources of unbiased information 27 Aug 15


It's no use looking for unbiased information. What you need to be doing is looking for information that is presented with honesty and integrity. Only your own study skills - your ability to discriminate, to be critical by default, to be honest with yourself and to be sceptical - can inform your judgement. The reason why no information provided by the media can be unbiased is that, no matter how wise the editor is, someone has decided what goes on the front page, what goes on the bottom of page 23, what column inches each item gets and what gets left out altogether. Similar considerations apply to the news on the radio and the telly. Detecting hidden tendentiousness is crucial. It's there in every news item in the Daily Mail you'll read. You'll never see it in a Guardian news item. That is not to say that Guardian news reporting is unbiased. It is not. But there is a world of difference in the degree of honesty and integrity between the two. Either you can see it or you can't.


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