On Bias in Journalism
Expecting Journalism to be without bias is like expecting water to be without oxygen.
News - that is to say, the report that this event happened, should be without bias.
Analysis - that is to say, the report on how this event happened, or what this event means for the future or the past, cannot be without bias.
Journalists should strive to analyze news without bias, but when looking at a News event, and wondering what the ramifications are, or will be, and how that news event actually happened, or can to be possible, it should be apparent that a person’s bias will reflect on that analysis.
This headline from Vox, Democratic optimism about the midterms is fading, is wild.
It’s almost like the ‘media’ does not read anything the ‘media’ writes.
The beginning of 2022: Republicans win midterms and flip Congress.
The summer of 2022: Democrats win midterms and increase control.
Now: After weeks of reporting Democrats peaked early, a story about fading optimism.
This is fantastic. Simply fantastic.
My ★★½ review of Polar on Letterboxd
My ★★★★ review of The Gray Man on Letterboxd
Aand the Padres knock off the Dodgers to advance to the NLCS.
Their first appearance in the NLCS since 1998.
Too bad the Mariners fell to the Astros and the Astros advanced to the ALDS.
Caturday
Will the Phillies be the first team to get to the Championship Series with a win today?
The more things change.
The more they stay the same.
Lazy Saturday morning of doing a whole lot of nothing.
It’s a nice way to spend a weekend morning.
This photo is just in another world. It doesn’t seem like it should be a real photo. It looks like a photoshop of birds and clouds, not birds on a lake. Amazing.
From The Atlantic’s Winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022
From McSweeney’s, Adam Narimatsu:
Nextdoor App or Stanford Prison Experiment?
- Participants are 99.9 percent white boomers.
Comparison of the 1x and 5x default zoom on the Pixel 7 Pro.
Indeed.
We need more of this in the world.
Sometimes the simple songs are the good songs.
Completed the Lego Nasa Apollo Saturn V set tonight.
It was a fun build.
A Day In the Life
11am in Southern California
A small portion of my desk.
Working on the Lego Saturn V set; taking my time and enjoying the build.
Also, coffee. Must have coffee.
Trump’s PAC Spends More on Lawyers Than Candidates
It’s a grift.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
His whole life has been a grift.