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Old 09-08-08, 07:40 PM   #18
Platapus
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Originally Posted by August
Maybe journalists and other media types ought to be required to wear the logo of the party they support as well.

The good thing is that subtlety is not common in journalism. It is pretty easy to identify biases.

And bias, as long as it is identified and characterized, is good. Since there is no such thing as an unbiased human source, the only way to get the full picture is to deliberately seek out competing biases and make an inference.
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