Maybe this is more an issue with my regional news… but my issue is less about the idiots - it’s when the news does a story where they interview some well-meaning but not media trained person (like a progressive activist at a protest), but then for “balance”, they bring in the fucking CEO of Orphan Crushing Inc. to eloquently say why having morals is evil and why the oppressors are actually the victims here. And then give him 90% of the screen time because he’s the “expert”

Except the US media usually skips the first part. When was the last time anyone saw someone with a PhD related to what they were talking about being asked something in the media? No they start with something Elon Musk tweeted about H1B visas and then cover what Laura Loomer said in response. The expert on H1B visas is nowhere to be found.

You don’t have report “both sides” of an argument if one side of that argument is blithering bullshit.

And that’s how the bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe narrative gets pushed and stoked and permeates weak minds everywhere, through sheer repetition.

One of the biggest reasons nobody trusts the media is because of this stupid standard of objectivity. Not the journalists fault, might as well insist reporters can fly as be “objective”.

Pretending to be objective is dishonest; making it an editorial standard guarantees you’re lying to the audience.

So they just pretend to be objective, we all see though it; and nobody likes being bullshited.