re: #685 reine.de.tout

Bud Obdi, my dad was a reporter and editor for a newspaper for 40 years. Reporters report facts, even when the facts are inconvenient for their own personal opinions. Editorial staff analyzes and presents opinion.

Sure. But there’s still bias. There’s bias in what stories are covered and what stories aren’t. There’s bias in which facts get reported on. There is always bias, and pure objectivity is an impossible state to reach. Everyone in the US is biased (hopefully) towards the opinion that Democracy is a better system of government than Stalinism. Biases aren’t inherently negative.