We aim to provide news without liberal/conservative spins --unlike the most popular instances--

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We aim to provide news without liberal/conservative spins --unlike the most popular instances-- - Lemmy.World

Putting bias in your sidebar doesn’t give me much hope for the community.

What bias is in the sidebar?

When you compare your thing to another thing, and shed a negative light on the other thing, that’s bias. You have a bias for your own community. It’s not a bad thing to have a bias for your own creations, but when you have a community based on unbiased fact and the first thing you do is show a bias, it goes against the spirit of the original idea.

For instance, leaving “unlike the most popular instances” off the end removes a lot of the bias. There is also bias in the “liberal/conservative” statement, which leaves open other political ideals which are now not singled out, and honestly sounds libertarian. Lastly, there is even bias in the word “spin” because it is often perceived negatively, and so you use a buzz word to shade the tone of the community, thus creating a bias in the minds of perspective readers. Bias is heavily dependant on the language used. A less biased way to phrase the sidebar may be something closer to, “We aim to provide news without political bias,” or even throw it back to Dragnet with, “Just the facts.” Whatever it is, it can’t be exciting or aggressive. Neutrality means sacrificing self-aggrandizement and superiority.

If you want to read news that is nearly as unbiased as possible, your sources will be limited. You’re looking at AP News and Reuters, though with some squinting you can squeeze a few others in as well, but I would stay away from any site that puts editorials front an center on their homepage. It’s just clickbait, and clickbait drives bias.