• wakumul@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    by virtue of the fact that they choose which stories to cover, they are slanting the conversation.

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      8 months ago

      Definitely. But the effort toward appearing objective was made, which in my experience is superior to Fox News, who makes all the editorial filters THEN projects a narrative until the ones it covers.

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        8 months ago

        the most charitable thing i can say is that it’s possible that the anchors in the 80s didn’t understand their own biases. but i think they knew. we’ve all seen Network.