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Originally posted by MuadDib
If it were the case that we can not see the biases that we agree with than how do people overcome biases ever?
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BINGO! People usually don't ever get over thier biases. It might be a sad fact to face, but its true. Once people establish their beliefs, they rarely change them. All you can do is worry about your own biases. And the only way to overcome these is to take news in from every source possible, and remember that the truth lies somewhere inbetween them all in most cases. Or you can get mad and cry foul every time you see a bias, but from what I've seen, this will end up being your full time job. They are everywhere. Conciously or subconciously a bias will always end up in the story by any reporter. I highly doubt that fox news' ratings are going to go down because of this thread. I highly doubt they will change their bias. And I highly doubt that the fact that they have a bias in their reporting is news to anybody at TFP. What might be news to some is that all of journalism has a bias, because every journalist has a set of beliefs, and deep down inside he/she thinks they are right.