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RE: Is Unbiased Journalism Still Possible?
What comes first—food or morals?
If good, careful, and honorable journalists can't find a TV station, newspaper, or platform to publish their work, what do they do? They adapt...
They exist, these ambitious journalists. Their biggest problem is getting their voices heard beyond the prevailing narratives.
I did include the "food" aspect in my article initially but then removed it. It would have turned into a lengthy debate and pushed me to write more and more. So, I’m glad you pointed it out. Hmmm… foods versus morals—very interesting.
But what if all the "food" is exhausted before one even realizes the extent of the damage already inflicted?
Sooner or later, the truth does come out. I’ve become a strong believer in that. Whatever, however, whenever, it cannot be suppressed for long. Sadly, we are living in a post-truth age… yet still, the truth finds its way...
I just hope people realize it before it’s too late, before they’ve exhausted every single morsel. But it's not that simple, is it???
Ah, it's never that simple. Just as there is never just one truth. It can vary greatly depending on perspective and context. I would consider it progress if interpretations, opinions, and assessments were identified as such and not presented as facts...
If you call it 'progress', so you have a goal in mind, which is (the 'idea' of) one indivisible truth. Otherwise, there would no progress be possbible as wei all would just be dancing in a circle.
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Not necessarily. One could generally depart from the concept of truth (reality). Limit oneself to opinions, viewpoints, perspectives – and call it exactly that. If we manage to show each other this respect and renounce ‘opinion sovereignty’... Who knows?
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In some contexts, some opinions are more or less equal.
But there are contexts in which this cannot be said,
and there are opinions which seem obviously strange or queer or -- wrong.
The main task of science is to clearing opinions. The method is, NOT to leave opinions (hyptheses) as they are but to falsify them.
As a matter of fact one gains new ones and never the truth itself. So, the limitting to opinions, viewpoints, perspectives is a mission in regard to myself, not to others, without losing respect. And the limits are not "total" as I am allowed to surely know: 2+2=4.
Most important gets the discussion on behalf of the so called 'universal human rights', i.e. such rights humans should have in every culture, in each situation, never weakened by opinions, viewpoints, perspectives.
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Da sind wir doch einer Meinung. Tatsache ;-))
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