“It is not … a question of slanting the news. Almost every story worth reporting requires the reporter to adopt some ‘theory’ of its thrust that will enable him or her to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant and the important from the unimportant. Quite often this process will involve value judgments as to which individuals may and do differ. There is no reason why this ought to dismay or perplex any fair editor; he will merely see to it that personal biases don’t get out of control, and that the mix of stories (and thus ‘theories’) ultimately presented to the reader or viewer is reasonably well balanced.”
Source: The Coming Battle for the Media: Curbing the Power of the Media Elite (1988).
Keywords: media bias, public-discourse, debate, governance
