Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Does she or doesn't she?

"You never worried that Marty might be privately upset with you."

For a mid-level journalism class I once did a bias study of a series of articles and an editorial, all on the same topic. One conclusion was the editorial was far less biased. The reason? The stories all omitted a major perspective, so that it was not addressed at all. The editorial covered the major perspectives, though it did so in the form of shooting one of them down. Thus, an uninformed reader of the editorial knew the sides at issue, and could take or leave the arguments. An uninformed reader of the stories would never know of the alternative perspective.

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