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Comment by davesque

6 days ago

> Are you arguing that because the authors knew the pattern they were documenting was unflattering, the piece is somehow compromised?

Uh, no? Lol, I'm on your side, bud. Put away the pitchfork. I thought it was a really good and fair article. I am not the adversary you're looking for.

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benzible  6 days ago

> my personal stance is that the critical tone was both intended by the authors

You may think we are on the same side. You don't understand what side I'm on. "Lol".

Your "personal stance" is that you can get inside the heads of the reporters? Obviously not. So you're going by the idea that an article that leads to critical conclusions is inherently slanted. This is an insidious and damaging idea. It has led to the belief by journalists and editors that they need to twist themselves into pretzels to present "both sides", which is easily exploited by people of bad faith to launder outright lies. There's a direct line between this and authoritarianism. I'm quite serious about this. The fact that you agree with the authors in this case is completely orthogonal.

Jay Rosen has written a lot about this, well worth reading: https://pressthink.org/2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questio...

  • teolandon  6 days ago

    Every article is inherently biased due to the fact that there are inclusions and omissions. This is just a fact.

    You're injecting your own personal view into GP's statement by adding a lot of weight into the distinction between the words "critical" and "incendiary" and "neutral", when GP made a very neutral and not as charged statement.

  • davesque  6 days ago

    Bud. Put the keyboard down and relax. I have no idea what you're talking about. You've extrapolated all this just from what I wrote?

    • benzible  6 days ago

      > You've extrapolated all this just from what I wrote?

      says the guy who said "certainly intended by the authors" based on... what they wrote?

      On top of that "Put the keyboard down and relax" from the guy who keeps replying?

      <chef's kiss>

      > I have no idea what you're talking about.

      The one point I'll concede!

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