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by skocznymroczny 2131 days ago
Providing objective, non-biased events would be very hard.

Consider for example the current riots going on in the US. How do you objectively report on that? With bias, on one side you have "peaceful protest disrupted and escalated by the police", on the other side you have "police intervening in riots to maintain order and protect property". There's not really inbetween.
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majewsky 2131 days ago
"Protesters say their peaceful assembly has been disrupted and escalated by the police. The police argue they've only been intervening in riots to maintain order and protect property."

Done.

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SifJar 2131 days ago
If you have to represent "both sides" (in many cases there'll be more than two sides really), you end up having to give a voice to nutjobs, plus you present both sides as equally valid assessments.

Much as we'd all love an "unbiased" news source, the reality is that bias is a very hard problem to solve well.

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moomin 2131 days ago
Indeed, just repeating what people say about an event may be factual, but without any concept of what is actually true, it can’t be considered objective.

If one side is lying, objective reporting would tell you which side it was.

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