The Media

trillobyite · 06-8-2005, 11:23 AM

I propose two questions:

1. Out of all the media outlets that exist in our world, which do you believe to be the least biased and most objective?

My opinion is that the "Economist" is the most objective, factual, and non-biased new magazine out there. It tells you what happened, how it happened, why it happened. It doesn't try to act too controversial and is specifically meant to be read by world leaders.

2. What is the definition of media objectivity? Is it A: To have two people of opposite opinions share their beliefs or B: Give the 5 Ws and H (who what when etc) without adding in too much opinion, just reporting on events?

I pick B. Why? Because I believe that the purpose of the media is to INFORM and nothing else. It should act just like a history textbook, no more and no less. I find it shameful when a discussion about Stalin will have an extremist communist who supports Stalin present, or have a Holocaust denier present at a Holocaust memorial event.

What do all of you think should be the answer to those two questions?

06-8-2005, 11:23 AM	#1
trillobyite FFR Player Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: New York Posts: 310	The Media I propose two questions: 1. Out of all the media outlets that exist in our world, which do you believe to be the least biased and most objective? My opinion is that the "Economist" is the most objective, factual, and non-biased new magazine out there. It tells you what happened, how it happened, why it happened. It doesn't try to act too controversial and is specifically meant to be read by world leaders. 2. What is the definition of media objectivity? Is it A: To have two people of opposite opinions share their beliefs or B: Give the 5 Ws and H (who what when etc) without adding in too much opinion, just reporting on events? I pick B. Why? Because I believe that the purpose of the media is to INFORM and nothing else. It should act just like a history textbook, no more and no less. I find it shameful when a discussion about Stalin will have an extremist communist who supports Stalin present, or have a Holocaust denier present at a Holocaust memorial event. What do all of you think should be the answer to those two questions? __________________ Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lives here on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html

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