Media er aldri uhildet og det er helt fint

Mer fra Jay Rosen. I en spørsmål og svar-runde utbroderer Jay Rosen i Pressthink sin mening om “Media bias”.

For de som har lest tidligere poster (f.eks. her og her) i denne bloggen, er det ingen overraskelse at jeg er helt enig med Rosen, og tar det for gitt at skjevheten Rosen beskriver gjelder fullt ut også i Norge.

Media er aldri uhildet:

There’s bias in the conversation our biased reporter has with his biased editor, bias in the call list he develops for his story, bias in his choice of events to go out and cover, bias in the details he writes down at the event, bias in his lead paragraph, bias in the last paragraph, bias when his editor cuts a graph. The headline someone else writes for him– that has bias. There’s bias in the placement of the story. (No bias in the pixels or printer’s ink, though.) Bias, bias, bias. Yes, I see it. I see it everywhere. I often disagree with those who see it only somewhere in the press. Bias against Bush. Bias against the anti-war Left. Bias against believing Christians. They don’t go far enough, in my opinion.

Og bias er helt fint:

In any case, if we do want unbiased journalism we should not. We should want journalists who show good judgment.

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