(1/) Thread on focusing on fair reporting, as opposed to unbiased reporting, based on a helpful tip from NYT's Astead Herndon, @AsteadWesley, in his AMA at #IRE20.
His explanation helped me better understand this concept and hopefully it can help others, too.
(2/) I asked @AsteadWesley his thoughts on responding to criticisms of bias in political reporting, and how to avoid it in the first place.
He responded that, "if you are fair, accurate, clear, and contextualized... you will not be biased."
(3/) The emphasis on routing out bias largely "comes from a journalism community that's for too long seated the question of objectivity to only being one that's in a partisan framework, and that's, frankly, one that I don't think really suits us," he said.
(4/) If we are fair, if we are accurate, and we have that commitment [to fairness and accuracy], it will lead us in a place that gets us to each side of the issue,” he added.
(5/end) Specifically as a Black political journalist, he said that his work is sometimes seen as "advocacy" for a Black candidate, which is untrue (and biased).
"No party, no candidate, has a monopoly on truth, has a monopoly on facts," Herndon said.
#IRE20
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