The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158015   Message #3733581
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Aug-15 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Sources of unbiased information
Subject: RE: BS: Sources of unbiased information
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.