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The truth is that the media is more afraid of bias than they are of misleading their readers. And while that seems like a slippery slope, and may very well be one, there must be room to inject the writer’s voice back into their work, and a willingness to call out bad actors as such, no matter how rich they are, no matter how big their products are, and no matter how willing they are to bark and scream that things are unfair as they accumulate more power.
Someone has to show some backbone. It would be nice if it were the media. But it doesn't have to be them.
But courage and sacrifice only exist in a framework of belief. One which describes a world in which humanity has a meaningful place. It must explain the power dynamics of that world, what matters to those powers, and a moral guide to dealing with them.
For now, the only functioning mythology is hierarchical oligarchy. So the majority are aligned to the service of oligarchs.
@pluralistic What really disturbs me about the media's fear of bias is it's based in a simplistic, binary view of stories. The news we most need often has more key dimensions than that.
Jay Scott wrote reviews for The Globe and Mail I got great use out of for MANY years, even though it was clear that he and I liked almost none of the same movies. But he wrote his one opinion of a film and detailed why and from that I could tell quite reliably whether it would be for me.