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0 pointslocustous3y ago0 comments

> My point is that you do not know how the editorial workflow works.

I think you have it the other way around. The bias is institutionalized so deeply that the process makes it essentially impossible to get a non curated with bias point of view out of the organization.

Look at how tightly political leanings are tied to news outlets.

If it were as easy and objective as you say we would get a lot more random pieces out of outlets instead of the rather rigid ideological publications we see in existence today.

Even Reddit subs and hacker news, which are much more random than news outlets, have pretty clear political leanings. With sufficient samples you can even break down the subgroups within the community.

News orgs don't have nearly the internal diversity required to possibly remove such bias. They are homogenous.

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donohoe3y ago

>> I think you have it the other way around. The bias is institutionalized so deeply that the process makes it essentially impossible to get a non curated with bias point of view out of the organization.

That appears to be your opinion, likely that of many here. However thats not how it works.

I have worked in media for 20 years and have had the opportunity to see how many editors, newsrooms, and publications in general work. I have sat in editorial meetings where coverage and stories are discussed. I have been present when editors and writers go back and fourth on stories.

The problem is that for any given news org, you and most people do not know what it takes to publish a story at some of these places. Thats NOT a criticism of you - I think we'd all be better off if folks knew how it worked.

locustousOP3y ago

So, does the representation of said news room consist of a group that votes in line with the same distribution as the general population or does it lean significantly to a single side?

Money is on, it was homogeneous. Which means, You can't even see your own biases as other points of view were culled in creating and nurturing the org structure.

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