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Date Posted: 11:06:59 07/16/11 Sat
Author: Vice Verser
Subject: ("Beware of Biased Journalism")

Alright, there's something I wanted to bring to your attention. Don't accept as truth everything you read about in a magazine or newspaper. You don't have to accept as truth everything a hot-shot journalist says on a newscast. If a female is writing about say, relationships in a magazine. You have to keep in mind her personal experiences and lovelife is going to effect her point-of-view maybe more then actual statistic or fact.

Women lie, men lie, numbers don't. When you watch the news really start watching and ask yourself if a particular story was handled in a purely informative and unbiased, unprejudiced manner. Another example, if there is some random guy writing about abortion.
You have to keep things like that in mind. Men don't experience childbirth in the same way females do so his opinions to an extent are going to effect the way he tells the story.

Another thing, if a show that handles the News has an obligation to a target demographic try to keep in mind how that effects the journalism and also how it effects the stories they choose to give coverage. A show who's target demographic is older, upper-class, white females may not handle stories in a way that a 17 year-old black male can relate to.

They may not even handle stories in a way that minorities in general can relate to. Now I'm not saying anyone has more or less ability to relate to other human-beings. I'm just saying there's informative, factual journalism then there's biased, personal journalism that includes individual idealism and stereotype.

If a doctor develops a procedure, writes an article about the procedure, to a certain extent his opinions about it are biased. Keep that in mind.
Now, if that doctor admits that the experimental procedure
is still in infant stages and that he can't promise it's possible benefits, he's presenting it in a less biased way.
If there's conflicts of interest that involve the person telling the story and they admit to that, that also effects how you recieve it.
If the person is telling the story in a "Nothing to lose, nothing to gain" manner then they may be closer to the truth. When you're dealing with statistics and factual information there's a certain type of detachment you have to show when relaying it to an audience, whether it's written word or a show that handles the news. Even when factual, concrete information or statistics are being handled I believe there are still exceptions to every rule.

Another example, say a book that handles psychology that only ever tells the story of mental illness or personality disorder from the perspective of the psychiatrist or therapist. Is that really a completely fair, realistic way to tell the story of mental illness?
How informed can you be about the culture of anything if you're merely getting it's description from anothe rperson that's an outsider.
I'm calling the doctor an outsider in the sense that they may have never had this disorder and may have never lived with anyone effected by it. I'm not telling you to distrust doctors, I'm telling you to distrust people that present information to you without being as factual as they can possibly be at that given time.
You have to ask yourself if this particular doctor treats a person or just the disease itself.
You should distrust people that tell you not to use your own discretion or rationality/common sense.

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