[Mpls] Peebles and The City Pages

[Michael Atherton]

WizardMarks wrote:

> Good. That's a sign of maturity. There is no such thing as unbiased 
> reporting--it's a null class. As one colleague put it, "The 
> minute you write it down, it's a lie." I would perhaps not go quite so 
> far, but so long as the facts are fulsome and correct, the bias is there 
> and so what. Everyone has biases, it's the human condition; to 
> expect reporters not to have them is to exclude them from the species.

I suppose in much the same vein as there is no such thing as a polite
post. :-|

I would agree that there may be no such thing as completely
bias-free reporting, but I believe that reporting can be balanced
in the sense of reporting multiple perspectives.

I don't think that we should give up the goal of unbiased news
reporting in the same way that I don't think we should give up
the goal of ethics in government, individual morality, or
racial equality.

Michael Atherton
Prospect Park