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Post by FFS on Aug 31, 2021 20:07:12 GMT 1
There's bias and there's bias. What is a reporter to do, report objectively without any feelings creeping in, or tell us the situation as they see it? Personally, I'd rather have the latter.
Example:
1. Two women and five children died today as fighting continued in Kabul.
2. Taliban 'soldiers' shot and killed two mothers and their five young children as they crouched, pleading and crying, in the last intact room of their already bombed-out home.
The first states 'the facts', the second tells the story.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 7:38:52 GMT 1
Interesting example
Is number 2 fiction then?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 11:38:04 GMT 1
There's bias and there's bias. What is a reporter to do, report objectively without any feelings creeping in, or tell us the situation as they see it? Personally, I'd rather have the latter.
Example:
1. Two women and five children died today as fighting continued in Kabul.
2. Taliban 'soldiers' shot and killed two mothers and their five young children as they crouched, pleading and crying, in the last intact room of their already bombed-out home.
The first states 'the facts', the second tells the story.
Similarly, few people "are killed" in Gaza despite the high numbers dying violently there.  |
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Post by FFS on Sept 1, 2021 11:46:09 GMT 1
You'd think an award-winning journalist could punctuate.
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Post by FFS on Sept 1, 2021 11:48:07 GMT 1
Interesting example Is number 2 fiction then? No, it's an interpretation of the facts. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 12:27:12 GMT 1
You'd think an award-winning journalist could punctuate. I don't think the meme is his. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 13:05:01 GMT 1
On the other hand...
"If it's the BBC, you can trust it." Jeremy Vine.
Half the nation erupts in laughter.
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Post by FFS on Sept 1, 2021 16:24:28 GMT 1
On the other hand... "If it's the BBC, you can trust it." Jeremy Vine. Half the nation erupts in laughter. And the other half is watching ITV or Channel 4. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 16:38:12 GMT 1
That's the half that are laughing. Only the BBC could consistently talk of NI trade issues and empty shelves in supermarkets without mentioning Brexit. That's lying by omission.
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