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Originally Posted by twinkie Journalists theoretically are supposed to write only the facts, but in reality, they taint most of the facts they write on.
The bias begins from the moment the reporter chooses which story they wish to cover or get assigned to. Due to political, institutional, and commercial reasons, how accurately the facts are presented will be influenced. The fact is that journalists are humans, and humans will have an opinion to color a fact. On top of that, all news organizations are run like a business. The prime interest is profit. How they obtain their “facts” is another topic all together. |
And who are you to say? Are you a media mogul? If so, how long have you been on the business? In what media organization have you worked on?
Journalism is a profession, not a hobby you moron. It's not like you can say, "well, today I'm going to write about this and I'm going to write it this way." Facts are facts, and a fact speaks for itself. Any journalist caught cheating, like what most of you do during your mid-terms, with facts are immediately shunned from the world of journalism. Newspapers take it very seriously whenever a journalist displays some sort of opposition or inclination toward their sources. That's why you can't get a job as a journalist these days if you haven't had the proper education in what it really takes to have self-control and self-discipline in writing the facts. People who don't have those qualities don't last long enough.
So, the next time you start judging a journalist's integrity, think about what it takes to be a real journalist. It's only people like you who would never understand because you are the one that has distorted visions of the world and how it functions.