Opinion
Opinion disguised as news should prompt the question ‘Says who?’
Readers should beware of news articles featuring statements of opinion that lack a clear source.
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On the ‘media’: Clear the clutter with a discerning eye
On one point, President-elect Donald Trump has it right. Reporters, as he often intimated throughout his successful campaign, are biased. But not in the ways you may think. Or in ways in which politicians and pundits have led you to believe are true. News organizations lean one way or the other because they are a...
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For A Balanced Diet
Broadcasting should make up only part of an active citizen’s news consumption — and, frankly, not the largest share of it.
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Don’t Let the Narrative Trump the Facts
Media outlets can cause major harm when they jump to conclusions that jibe with their preconceived biases.
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Don‘t Let the Narrative Trump The Facts
You’d have thought by now that the news media would have learned the hard lessons of prejudging a story or a situation before all the facts are in.
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Media Scrutiny of the ‘Unsavory’ Past
News organizations need to exercise consistency when pointing to past actions that public actors would rather forget.
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The Optimist’s Lament
For the vast majority of human beings, being alive in 2013 makes them among the luckiest people in the history of the world.
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Sometimes the news is not where it should be
When the news is buried, is it accidental or on purpose?
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Ignoring the news
Bias sometimes includes what you don't see in the media.
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Faux Journalism
See if you can spot the common thread in the following passages, beyond the fact that they all appear in Lisa Beyer's TIME article, "Why The Middle East Crisis Isn't Really About Terrorism."
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Media Expect Accountability Only of Others
RALEIGH — The media like to see themselves as society’s accountability police, constantly on the alert to prevent government officials or corporate leaders from getting off the hook. Whatever the issue, the media want answers. They want explanations. They want consequences. The public must understand what went wrong, they say, if only to prevent it from happening again. Funny, though, how that doesn’t apply to them.
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NY Times ‘Trust’ Report a Roadmap to Bias
RALEIGH — A line from The New York Times’ “Preserving our Readers’ Trust” report made me do a spit-take while drinking my coffee: “Critics, competitors and partisans can too easily caricature who we are and what we do.” This is rich, almost Frank Rich. This worldwide publishing empire, the chief caricaturer of conservatives, Republicans and all things not left-wing, is claiming victimhood.
