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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 22:53:11 JST Cory Doctorow

   The truth is that the media is more afraid of bias than they are of misleading their readers. And while that seems like a slippery slope, and may very well be one, there must be room to inject the writer’s voice back into their work, and a willingness to call out bad actors as such, no matter how rich they are, no matter how big their products are, and no matter how willing they are to bark and scream that things are unfair as they accumulate more power.

   -Ed Zitron
   https://www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/

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     Calicoday :gamedev: (calicoday@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 02:03:35 JST Calicoday :gamedev:

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     @pluralistic What really disturbs me about the media's fear of bias is it's based in a simplistic, binary view of stories. The news we most need often has more key dimensions than that.

     Jay Scott wrote reviews for The Globe and Mail I got great use out of for MANY years, even though it was clear that he and I liked almost none of the same movies. But he wrote his one opinion of a film and detailed why and from that I could tell quite reliably whether it would be for me.