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We have a local online news source of recent vintage that touts itself as being virtually bias-free. It’s very well financed (a billionaire who puts his name on as many things around here as he can is the money behind it), so I’d bet on its survival for at least a few years, which I wouldn’t do for a couple-three others which have sprung up lately.
Remember “we report, you decide”? Remember how bias-free that turned out? As also in the case of the above-mentioned local online news source, they clearly protested too much.
And really, just who is “crying foul” here? It is not to deny that certain mainstream outlets tend toward leaning one way or the other, but they don’t all lean in the same direction. A person can get reliable information from the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune, too, both of which tend to view matters from a more right-leaning perspective. And they and others are about as mainstream as it gets.
In recent years I’ve become less a fan of The New Yorker and more one of The Atlantic. Why? For pretty much the same reason George Packer left the former for the latter.
Remember “we report, you decide”? Remember how bias-free that turned out? As also in the case of the above-mentioned local online news source, they clearly protested too much.
And really, just who is “crying foul” here? It is not to deny that certain mainstream outlets tend toward leaning one way or the other, but they don’t all lean in the same direction. A person can get reliable information from the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune, too, both of which tend to view matters from a more right-leaning perspective. And they and others are about as mainstream as it gets.
In recent years I’ve become less a fan of The New Yorker and more one of The Atlantic. Why? For pretty much the same reason George Packer left the former for the latter.
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