When Online Communication Encourage the Flexing of Biases - Amidst our talking, I said to my friend, let’s zoom out for a moment. I asked if it’s even possible today to go online and hear objective commentary about any of the prominent public figures discussed by the media? It’s as if the messengers aim is to hammer how you’re meant to think about someone. There’s no journalistic integrity for objectivity, there’s merely bias and persuasion.
I don’t need to be told how to think about someone, I can use my own discernment for that, thank you. I enjoy hearing unbiased perspectives. Speak to me with facts and thoughtful questions… and minimal bias. How about you? Where do you go for objective reporting? It seems everything is biased these days! All around us there's tons of biased opinions, competing against one another. I want to steer clear of that messy bog of polarizing divisiveness
Everything around us, media-wise, seems framed solely as conjecture twisted as fact. I really have difficulty believing anything in the news at all, especially after COVID. At least I know where my biases lie most of the time and I am willing to listen to ideas that may not coincide with my own. I am not sure where one can turn to get thoughtful and unbiased news anymore. I guess Henry Rollins says it best when he suggests that getting boots on the ground( your own boots) is the only way to see what’s going on.
I'm write there with you Tanya! I used to enjoy conjecture more, but now that it's getting twisted as fact like you say, it's getting to be too much! Conjecture is meant to add and extrapolate, yet the media uses it as a means of distorting truth... Dang it. And yes, Henry's got a great point regarding the boots on the ground to see what's going on.
Everything around us, media-wise, seems framed solely as conjecture twisted as fact. I really have difficulty believing anything in the news at all, especially after COVID. At least I know where my biases lie most of the time and I am willing to listen to ideas that may not coincide with my own. I am not sure where one can turn to get thoughtful and unbiased news anymore. I guess Henry Rollins says it best when he suggests that getting boots on the ground( your own boots) is the only way to see what’s going on.
I'm write there with you Tanya! I used to enjoy conjecture more, but now that it's getting twisted as fact like you say, it's getting to be too much! Conjecture is meant to add and extrapolate, yet the media uses it as a means of distorting truth... Dang it. And yes, Henry's got a great point regarding the boots on the ground to see what's going on.