Has anybody else noticed how much of our conversation is directed by a devotion to neutrality, when really we should be more focused on objectivity?
This happens most frequently in the mainstream media.
Example: CNN reports "Donald Trump says migrant caravan full of terrorists". If you were devoted to objectivity, you would show the reality of the makeup of the asylum seekers, and call a lie a lie. But instead, all mainstream media (other than Fox, which is 90% propaganda) is devoted to the notion of neutrality, rather than that of objectivity. So they continue to host disingenuous discussions, with views from "both sides", about things that they know aren't real, and then they get upset when people simply choose the guys who said what they wanted to hear.
I dont know how to fix it. But I know it's important, because this devotion to neutrality has made facts meaningless. So debates about climate change, gun control, immigration, etc., all become meaningless, as each opinion is as valid as the next.
Thoughts?
This happens most frequently in the mainstream media.
Example: CNN reports "Donald Trump says migrant caravan full of terrorists". If you were devoted to objectivity, you would show the reality of the makeup of the asylum seekers, and call a lie a lie. But instead, all mainstream media (other than Fox, which is 90% propaganda) is devoted to the notion of neutrality, rather than that of objectivity. So they continue to host disingenuous discussions, with views from "both sides", about things that they know aren't real, and then they get upset when people simply choose the guys who said what they wanted to hear.
I dont know how to fix it. But I know it's important, because this devotion to neutrality has made facts meaningless. So debates about climate change, gun control, immigration, etc., all become meaningless, as each opinion is as valid as the next.
Thoughts?
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