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RE: Is Unbiased Journalism Still Possible?
Oh yes,
TV definitely isn’t the right medium for educational or well-informed content. No.
But at the same time, there’s no other way to stay updated about the current situation… a source of being informed moment by moment. Even though there really isn’t a need for updates every single second.
But I guess this too is a kind of addiction. Isn’t it?
Skepticism while watching the news is the only way to actually learn something. Otherwise, we just end up consuming pre-stitched narratives. And yes, when this manipulation happens in your own country, it hurts even more because it feels like a betrayal. :((((
My attitude towards life in and for Germany will therefore never be the same as it once was. (But I must admit, I was also quite naive...)
One of my naive assumptions was to hope for so-called “plurality of opinion” within the media landscape: what one viewpoint considers too far left is balanced out by another on the right, and I can essentially interpolate the middle and thus the truth.
Getting multiple perspectives is good and important, but it is by no means a stable foundation and therefore not a viable basis for the goal of being “properly” informed.
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