Perhaps if you keep crying and sobbing about it, an ocean of your tears will sweep across the world and wipe said article off of the Slashdot homepage. But somehow, I doubt it.
Kugano: You can spout off about what journalism *should* be, or how Slashdot can get *taken seriously,* but the bottom line is this: we live in a world which is FAR from ideal in any way. All journalism is biased - every last shred of it, and there's no way it could possibly ever be otherwise. There is no such thing as an unbiased report. We are human beings - reporters are human beings - news writers are human beings. And human beings are incapable of being perfectly objective. Some may be better than others, but very few are good at being objective in the slightest.
So, knowing that, you can have your "news" fed to you in two ways: you can watch a major network, where you can only guess the individual bias of the reporters or writers, or you can take it the Slashdot way, where there isn't any social posturing to pretend that it's objective. Slashdot openly recognizes the impossibility of objectivity, and is that much more accurate for it. When the basic human "flaw" is recognized openly, then everyone can take it into account honestly and without ambiguity.
The worst type of journalism is when everyone pretends that it's completely objective. Then you don't know how to weed out the "truth" from the opinions. And maybe that's how you like it. You'd rather believe in an ideal world that will just feed you all the unbiased news that your heart desires. And of course it's unbiased, because that's what they tell you!! But as for me, I'll live in the real world and read honest sources like Slashdot that admit to their bias so you can adjust for it and then move on.
Slashdot Mirror
He looked at his watch
Found only "kernel death"
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So, knowing that, you can have your "news" fed to you in two ways: you can watch a major network, where you can only guess the individual bias of the reporters or writers, or you can take it the Slashdot way, where there isn't any social posturing to pretend that it's objective. Slashdot openly recognizes the impossibility of objectivity, and is that much more accurate for it. When the basic human "flaw" is recognized openly, then everyone can take it into account honestly and without ambiguity.
The worst type of journalism is when everyone pretends that it's completely objective. Then you don't know how to weed out the "truth" from the opinions. And maybe that's how you like it. You'd rather believe in an ideal world that will just feed you all the unbiased news that your heart desires. And of course it's unbiased, because that's what they tell you!! But as for me, I'll live in the real world and read honest sources like Slashdot that admit to their bias so you can adjust for it and then move on.
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