October 23rd, 2006 | 
Author: One of my core beliefs: everyone and just about everything has a bias. I truly believe this is an undeniable fact of existance.
It doesn’t matter if you are trying to be unbiased, you will be biased. I don’t believe it’s anything to be ashamed of, and I’m not saying news organizations that try to be unbiased are liars, I’m just saying bias is a natural thing and it occurs everywhere.
Take The BBC for example. Some lefties might say that the BBC is as close to unbiased real news as you can get, certainly beating out those crazed righties at Fox!
I say: Balderdash!
And The BBC agrees with me. A leak about a recent meeting at the BBC shows that even the BBC knows they have a leftist (labour), gay, anti-Christian (or pro-Muslim, whatever) bias. In fact, alleged reptilian shapeshifter, Andrew Marr stated:
“The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It’s a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias.”
I say: refreshing! Good for the culturally liberal biased BBC. I think I will certainly file this as evidence for my core belief about bias. Everyone has a bias. I do, you do, the BBC does, Fox does, CNN does. Even this blog post is biased. Even this sentence.
Even these sources: Ynet, Daily Mail
Tags: politics
Is it bias if you’re right?
This comment is totally free of bias. Unlike those dirty Lithuanians!
D’oh! I screwed that one up…
But who decides if it’s “right”? If you say it’s right and I say it isn’t, we both have opposite biases, also known as a “disagreement”.
Those in control decide what is right. That’s the way it is and there is not too much we can do about it, aside from shedding the blood of the “right”. Until we are ready to do that… just be fine with being “wrong” or “left” whichever you see fit.
I think “right” as in “correct” is being confused with politically “right” as in “conservative”.
Because I’m conservative, I think my view are correct and I think liberal views generally aren’t. However, that’s my bias. I’m sure liberals have the opposite bias…otherwise they wouldn’t be liberals…
Most of my posts regarding the Wii are soaked in gooey pro-Nintendo bias. That said, there are ways to attempt to be objective and unbiased. It is possible to get an unbiased statistic (unbiased meaning accurate, essentially), and the raw statistic itself isn’t biased — but the spin people put on it is where the bias comes in. So, in my opinion, if you at least provide the data you drew your conclusions from, then others can draw their own conclusions, whether they match yours or differ. But yes — there’s bias in everything that matters, because just about everything is based on some type of opinion, which introduces bias in the first place.
There are facts, many we will never know for certain, but if there’s a God, it will tell us who was correct and who was not. That’s the true value of religion: telling the naysayers “I told you so. Suck it.”
That’s the true value of religion: telling the naysayers “I told you so. Suck it.”
Or coming to the conclusion that they were wrong and “sucking it”
I don’t recall the verse in the New Testament where Jesus said “I tell you the truth, suck it.” Maybe it’s in those gnostic gospels I’ve heard so much about lately…
mgroves – I believe it’s somewhere right after Peter yells out, “CAN YOU SMELLLLLL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING?!!!” The book of Mathew I believe. Anyway good post, it’s good to know that they admitt it, now we only have to wait for CNN and MSNBC.
If you think the true value of religion is telling your opponents “I told you so,” then I think you’re doing it wrong.
Heh, our culture has made bias a dirty word. Being unbiased is something we should strive for, but not deceive ourselves into thinking we have achieved.