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In my #skepcon2022 talk, I mentioned 6 types of false objectivity, as categorized by @jayrosen_nyu
@AustSkeptics @cbrskeptics
Here they are:
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A. He Said/She Said

There is a public contradiction.
This contradiction will get into the media.
There is no serious effort to analyze the claims that are in conflict, even though the controversy is based on them.
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(The news is the controversy, not the information that is in dispute).
There is a way to verify the individual claims, but the reportage (for whatever reason) does not deal with that.
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