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In his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, Broder said: Instead of promising “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, I would like to see us say – over and over, until the point has been made – that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours – distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour.
Why do people mistake bias for an agenda? It's a serious issue that goes to the heart of why so many people have a difficult time grasping what the roles of a journalist, a commentator, and the media are?
FOX News was started with an agenda, which host like Bill O'Reilly later tried to deny, to give an ideological balance - a viewpoint, a perspective on the news.
A bias, is inescapable
"Pulitzer Prize Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1973 and was the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and after. In his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, Broder said: Instead of promising “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, I would like to see us say – over and over, until the point has been made – that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours – distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version."
Why do people mistake bias for an agenda? It's a serious issue that goes to the heart of why so many people have a difficult time grasping what the roles of a journalist, a commentator, and the media are?
FOX News was started with an agenda, which host like Bill O'Reilly later tried to deny, to give an ideological balance - a viewpoint, a perspective on the news.
A bias, is inescapable...
Why do people mistake bias for an agenda? It's a serious issue that goes to the heart of why so many people have a difficult time grasping what the roles of a journalist, a commentator, and the media are?
FOX News was started with an agenda, which host like Bill O'Reilly later tried to deny, to give an ideological balance - a viewpoint, a perspective on the news.
A bias, is inescapable
"Pulitzer Prize Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1973 and was the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and after. In his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, Broder said: Instead of promising “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, I would like to see us say – over and over, until the point has been made – that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours – distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version."
Why do people mistake bias for an agenda? It's a serious issue that goes to the heart of why so many people have a difficult time grasping what the roles of a journalist, a commentator, and the media are?
FOX News was started with an agenda, which host like Bill O'Reilly later tried to deny, to give an ideological balance - a viewpoint, a perspective on the news.
A bias, is inescapable
"Pulitzer Prize Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1973 and was the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and after. In his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, Broder said: Instead of promising “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, I would like to see us say – over and over, until the point has been made – that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours – distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version."
1) Why do people mistake bias for an agenda? 2) It's a serious issue that goes to the heart of why so many people have a difficult time grasping what the roles of a journalist, a commentator, and the media are?
FOX News was started with an agenda, which host like Bill O'Reilly later tried to deny, to give an ideological balance - a viewpoint, a perspective on the news.
A bias, is inescapable
"Pulitzer Prize Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1973 and was the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and after. In his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, Broder said: Instead of promising “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, I would like to see us say – over and over, until the point has been made – that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours – distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version."
Why do people mistake bias for an agenda? It's a serious issue that goes to the heart of why so many people have a difficult time grasping what the roles of a journalist, a commentator, and the media are?
FOX News was started with an agenda, which host like Bill O'Reilly later tried to deny, to give an ideological balance - a viewpoint, a perspective on the news.
A bias, is inescapable
"Pulitzer Prize Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1973 and was the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and after. In his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, Broder said: Instead of promising “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, I would like to see us say – over and over, until the point has been made – that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours – distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version."
- Reuters Handbook of Journalism
- Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
- Information Literacy Competency Standards for JournalismStudents and Professionals
- RTNA Code of Ethics and Coverage Guidelines
I get your point, and predominantly agree with it, but I think Fox News (the cable network) is a poor rubric for illustrating it.
Fox Fox News Channel (FNC) delivers two general types of content:
What makes FNC a poor model is that on every show airing on that network the word "news" is there, and that makes what's not news seem to have a news label, and thus seem to be journalism (news) of some stripe. Check out some FNC screen shots and what one'll see is that sometimes the third word, "channel," in FNC's name appears and sometimes it doesn't.
- News, news analysis and journalistic editorials (NAJ)
- NAJ content and delivery on FNC, in terms of it's adherence to journalistic reporting and analysis standards, is roughly comparable in to that found on other cable news channels.
- Non-journalistic entertainment editorials, modeled on talk radio, but with a video format and, obviously, no callers (TRT)
- TRT content and delivery, like that of The Talk, The View and other panel-focused TV talk shows, adheres to no journalistic standards, mainly because it's meant to be entertainment, not journalism. Thus if they conduct due diligence as journalists must, they do; if they don't, they don't. If the persons appearing on the TRT shows utter falsities, they do and if they don't they don't, but as entertainers rather than journalists, they aren't obliged to acknowledge their misstatements.
To your point about bias, it's important to note that there are multiple kinds of bias. The kind most prevalent in journalism is what I'll call "selection bias." Selection bias results from two sources:
- TRT Programming -- All three use news events/stories as rubrics for entertaining discussion, but not journalistic (news) editorials:
- NAJ Programming
- News reporting + news analysis: Shepard Smith
- News reporting + news editorials: Bret Baier
While pragmatism makes it impossible to eliminate selection bias of the first type, the second type absolutely can be eliminated; it just takes due diligence and will to do so.
- Choosing what matters on which to report and what matters on which not to report
- Choosing what to discuss and not discuss re: a given topic on which an outlet reports.
- This can be seen in Baier's clip to which I linked. You'll notice that Baier quoted two Trump tweets, and remarked that the second one is factually accurate, but he made no mention of the factual inaccuracy contained in the first tweet (0:52). His failure to note the factual inaccuracy wouldn't be notable (as goes bias) were the ensuing discussion not wholly or in part about the shutdown. Similarly, though not required to because they're there as editorialists, none of his panelists noted the inaccuracy.
As for the agenda element:
- Fox News Group (FNG) has an agenda: generate maximum possible profits for its shareholders.
- FNC programs, which fall organizationally under FNG, each have that agenda along with one or more additional, lower-level agendas.
Everything you point to with Fox can as easily be applied to CNN, in spades.
Back in the days when cable networks like Fox and CNN came to be we used to call CNN the "Communist News Network" for their clearly biased left-lean in reporting, and FOX News the "Fascist news network" for it's right-lean reporting.
I see no difference today for every Fox talking head there is an equal and opposite at CNN (Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, Wolf Blitzer, etc.).
Why do people mistake bias for an agenda? It's a serious issue that goes to the heart of why so many people have a difficult time grasping what the roles of a journalist, a commentator, and the media are?
FOX News was started with an agenda, which host like Bill O'Reilly later tried to deny, to give an ideological balance - a viewpoint, a perspective on the news.
A bias, is inescapable
"Pulitzer Prize Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1973 and was the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and after. In his Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, Broder said: Instead of promising “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, I would like to see us say – over and over, until the point has been made – that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours – distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version."
Absolutely!
That's why some people prefer to skip the daily news and wait for a weekly newspaper or magazine that has time to put things in perspective.
The only problem with that, however, is that there are no weekly newspapers or magazines without an agenda.
It's impossible to know the truth without reading tons of articles from various sources, and nobody has time for that.
So that's why the liberal-biased media can mislead so many people. Believe it or not, many Americans actually believe what they see on ABC, CBS, or NBC newscasts.
So-called journalists whom refuse to do what they can to check their bias by definition have an agenda, because if they did not have an agenda they would want to play the news straight and honest.
Very few of that sort exist anymore.
WE USED TO BE BETTER
Why do people mistake bias for an agenda?
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