Jay RosenNov 27, 2022

See the attachment for Josh Marshall's apt description of "both sides" journalism.

As I've said before, "both sides" is not primarily a truth-seeking practice, but a refuge-seeking one.

"Press bias avoidance" as Josh calls it, is not about depicting what happened. Not in the main, I mean. Rather it's a pre-response by journalists to criticisms they have anticipated or internalized.

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#journalism #bothsides #journalists #mediabias

Show threadVirginia HeffernanNov 28, 2022
@jayrosen_nyu @joshtpm Bruno Latour has nice insight into why “interest” is a better framework than “bias.” One thing the media might do is simply take less interest in, say, the twisted sophistry of election denial and intravenous bleach for Covid. We don’t give astrological accounts of world events, nor should we give hearings to other superstitions - because such things do not merit media interest.
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Fair point, Virginia.

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