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Better Strangers #1: Be More Biased!
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Better Strangers #1: Be More Biased!

For our inaugural B.S. Podcast, Matt discusses the impossibility of "unbiased" news, and how we should abandon the concept if we want to be truly media literate.
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Jan 02, 2023
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First ever podcast, guys! This is a reading of my August 2022 article, “Be More Biased,” which you can see the text version of below:

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Be more biased!
I’m on vacation this weekend, so I’m sending out something I originally published in the pre-Substack days. Remains relevant, though! Back in journalism school, one golden rule was hammered into our heads: don't let bias seep into your reporting. Our opinions and preferences had no place in good journalism: we were to report "just the facts," and to allo…
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