Political bias in Wikipedia (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, June 24, 2012, 01:35 (4534 days ago) @ romansh

If you read the link I posted, they labelled *exactly* what they called political bias.
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> Thank you Matt, I had not read the blog before I asked the question.
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> But I have to admit they were silent on "What bias means to Matt".-I guess I'm confused by why you're even asking me for *my* take on political bias. Brace yourself, this isn't probably a short read. (You asked however...)-Bias is probably best described by looking for keywords that signal an opinion is being pushed. Modern American media is replete with this kind of speak, and it underlines certain news networks. (MSNBC which leans left, and Fox News who leans right.) -My 2 cent definition of what bias is, it's all the parts of some (story, issue) that by nature, is incomplete by act of deliberate or accidental ommission.-The trick in the notion of bias is that as humans, we're not all that great at being objective. (Nietzsche would have laughed Kant out of the room.) -So what is objectivity? That's a more important question, than "What is bias?" I will say that it is the state of discussion in which all sides are represented. In the case of the news stations, I would say that what is objective is what two of them agree on in regards to the same story.-How do I determine if an article is biased? Who wrote it? Are they affiliated in some way financially or egoistically to a position? Did they treat the opposing view fairly, if at all, so as to avoid a strawman? Importantly, do they acknowledge their bias?-Bias is unconscious for most of us, but thankfully there's other people to catch it.-I'm still puzzled as to why you care about my views in all of this, but that's about it.

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