We get it. The media is biased. So are readers. So why try to analyze it? niemanlab.org/2021/12/solida…
"News" is not the courts or raw data. It is mostly sloppily or nervously edited perceptions on breaking news by college educated folks who don't want a bullet in their head. In this country it has become a for profit venture in which advertisers and owners want to see results.
When enterprise journalists get too close to a story its not unusual to see them being smeared or attacked. Now countries like Russia just simply shut down media outlets who dare to investigate. Now litigation is used to intimidate journos and outlets. Its tough to be tough.
So "opinion" and newsertertainment Think Fox, CNN and Arguetainment dominate the ratings. Its pablum, its got bipolar conflict, faux outrage and all the anger vitamins a polarized audience needs to survive. Factual research and dispassionate reporting can be oddly comforting.
Conversely reporting is lengthy and absorbs days of focus to read and analyze. The Mueller Report had it been allowed to be completed would have been like Iran/Contra or Church/Pike. But who reads over 400 pages of "factual reporting" complete with massive redactions by the DOJ?
A simple rating system might help. This is one of the ideas I had years ago to save time. Rate the news source as 1) enterprise, 2) brave and 3) accurate in their bias to choose what you should read. The rest are usually PR releases or churn. Brave is a term not often used.
"sloppily or nervously edited perceptions on breaking news" sloppily does not mean editors are sloppy in the technical or factual editing but in modifying their perceptions. The "narrative" or perspective is often sloppy. Pressure groups do shift stories. websites.umich.edu/~newsbias/word…
Not so much fake news but opinion or supposition of intent creeping into news is where bias confirmation lays. Fox news doing a positive story about Hillary and Benghazi or CNN praising Trump is almost unthinkable these days. The narrative is set in stone. politico.com/magazine/story…
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