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.

@joshtpm

#journalism #bothsides #journalists #mediabias

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p

Judge Mehta has called a conference for 9:15 in the Oath Keeper sedition trial this morning.

That's unusual.👀

I hope none of the jurors got sick over the holiday weekend.

Where’s the lie? 🤔

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"Every histrionic warning, every red-faced speech in Congress, every bizarre and creepy and disgusting claim, every threat to life and limb directed at queer people, every bullshit "study" fabricated at the Heritage Foundation -- all of it has been dead wrong."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/they-have-always-been-wrong