9/21/2023 0 Comments Earthtimes political bias![]() ![]() Thank you for doing such a good job for our community. Reader reaction was, as you’d expect, divided, about equally.īarbara and Bill Ketchum were among those on the positive side: “We are grateful for the excellence and integrity of our news from the Florida Times-Union and your obvious ethical foundation. I made the point that “media” is a plural noun, and it lumps together all mass media - “from wacko websites, basement bloggers, cable TV channels of every stripe and wild social networks to legitimate, professional - and yes, mainstream - journalism organizations.”Īnd I emphasized that serious journalism organizations, like the Times-Union, live by venerable codes of ethics that require us to do our jobs and cover the news faithfully and impartially, even in the face of partisan attacks from any direction. ![]() I hope you will help us test that concept for the Times-Union.Ī couple of weeks ago, I wrote in this space that some top advisers in the Trump administration are demonizing “the media,” echoing their boss’ calling journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth.” I said they are apparently “hoping to create an alternative reality built upon alternative facts which they create and control, bypassing independent reporting and evaluation they cannot control.” Psychologists call it confirmation bias: people’s tendency to seek out and give more credence to information that confirms their beliefs - and to disregard or disparage information they don’t like. What you see can depend on what you’re looking for. ![]()
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