[Leica] Syrian Children
Jayanand Govindaraj
jayanand at gmail.com
Tue Jun 13 00:48:59 PDT 2017
Frank,
The fundamental problem is not that the media is biased - they have always
had strong political connections and views, and you expect them to be,
shall we say, not quite balanced. The real problem is our own lust for
Confirmation Bias. In other words, the problem is not media bias, but our
own well nurtured, and carefully tended bias! This is what really depresses
me, that Homo Sapiens, on an individual basis, is losing its capacity to
think clearly and logically.
FWIW, I find the New York Times as biased in its approach as Fox News, just
at different ends of the political spectrum.......
Cheers
Jayanand
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
wrote:
> I loved you pictures of children. I am in awe of your travels and
> photographs but do not often comment.
> I think most of the news we get is extremely biased. I read multiple news
> sites to try to get at the truth and the stories are poles apart depending
> on which news organisation you read. On top of that the internet has bred
> dozens of extremist “opinion” sites purporting to be “news” but with no
> attempt at investigation on the ground and ignoring all facts which
> conflict with the existing opinion, rather than changing the opinion to
> match fact. Depressing.
> Frank D.
>
>
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