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by briandear 4229 days ago
This I could get behind. If you were to strip the adjectives out of the stories (both literally and figuratively, it would not only remove some of the inherent bias, but also a lot of the noise. For example: "A police officer shot a man during an altercation over Lucky Charms in Sometown, California. The shooting is currently under investigation.

And that's it. You report the facts of the investigation and then the public has an unbiased view of the facts, without the subtle nuances that introduce bias. Such as, "A black police officer shot a Vietnamese man. Until the facts of the case reveal that race was a motive, then those details presumptively introduce race as a motive. That's the kind of journalism that is successful financially because it generates strong emotions, and thus viewers however it's subtly dishonest not because those facts aren't true, but because of the motivation behind why those facts where included.