nostr:npub1kpwlxpzkxfmuxjmzc2wp3rf9vjg0sgydmlhsnrgqr3maf59h86qqdxxzz4 nostr:npub1a3qw5h3e8df78wcl34jw9edps2exma0a3ysu6d6p5e5k4ejs6krs3md4yg I guess we’ll have to disagree on this one. I agree with the general sentiment – a little bias can reinforce itself over time, until you have the highly polarized society that social media algorithms have helped create. So any bias should be examined critically.

However, I’m *sure* that you’ll have a very hard time finding a news story that is accurate, complete, and unbiased, no matter the source. The best you can hope for is knowing the expertise and bias an organization has, and reading the article critically. I stopped paying for the local newspapers because every time they reported on subjects I had some expertise in, the articles were rife with errors. I couldn’t trust them on the stuff I was less informed about.

Not only that, but there is also the issue of framing, conscious or unconscious privilege, and so forth. As an example, right now in my city there is a lot of discussion on public transit. The discussion is completely polluted with assumptions heavily biased towards car culture, in which we’ve been immersed for many decades. So there is a bias there, even if *nobody* notices it. If the car was invented today, and proposals made to cover half the city with asphalt so people could have their own personal hunk of metal, plastic, and glass conveying them around at speeds higher than they can manage without losing control or crashing… It would be a complete joke.

In short (j/k I talk a lot), I don’t accept the premise that good journalism is devoid of any kind of bias. It is reporting and story-telling by humans, and the intelligent consumer will weigh it appropriately.

I also think that you are far too harsh on PressProgress. They are not the far-left opinion slingers you make them out to be. Those organizations exist, but PP isn’t one of them. To your last point in your post - I’m not sure about that. It takes funding to do good journalism, and non-profits struggle. Larger, for profit, organizations do good work but there’s always someone pulling the strings… The landscape is always shifting. We’ve had some seriously good work done by independent outfits lately, though.