Funny thing about polls …
Now, everyone knows I’m not really a “poll” believer as all algorithms have differing margins of error regardless of what anyone says but this poll kinda makes this thread a minority when it comes to belief in media and confirmation bias.
If the numbers are to be believed, of course.
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That poll isn’t about the media being biased. It’s about people believing the media is biased. Two very different things. More and more people people have thoughts like “I’m not really a “poll” believer”, “If the numbers are to be believed” and “belief in media and confirmation bias”.
The media is biased. More and more people are actually starting to realize how real that fact is.
I never thought this was a point of contention. Am I seriously supposed to believe that CNN doesn’t throw a liberal spin on every issue? Or that Fox News (worse than CNN) doesn’t do the exact same thing for the agenda of the right?
Media is inherently going to be biased but what matters is that they try to tell the full story and tell it as accurately as possible.
News of any kind is made my human beings and as such, it is literally impossible to be made without some sort of bias, however small. That doesn’t mean you can’t trust it because it’s only 99.99% unbiased. I 100% trust my own eyes to tell me it’s a nice day today outside the window but maybe I’m just in a good mood and that’s skewing the result? Automatically distrusting sources of information, that are proven constantly to be accurate and reputable because you know it’s impossible to be 100% unbiased is just paranoia.
The important thing to remember is that some outlets make efforts to minimise this inherent bias as much as they can. It’s called journalistic ethics and standards. Where as some outlets actively try to maximise this bias to an insane degree. If you think both are doing “the exact same thing”…
