Bias plied
Just in case you were thinking “media bias” was a relatively recent phenomenon, Mark Alger is here to remind you:
There never was a halcyon time when the press was composed of honest brokers of information struggling to bring the truth to their readers. I submit to you that it is impossible for a human being to be objective. So it behooves us all to accept that our informers are biased and to take their biases into account. I find the plainly socialist Guardian [UK] to be a more reliable source of information — even when they lie, I can find it out or figure it out quite readily by reading between the lines — than a putatively “objective” source unaware of its own prejudices.
Just so. Which is why I’ve never had any particular problem with NPR; yes, they have The Approved Worldview, but with a little practice anyone, regardless of political persuasion, can develop a suitable filter.
