You did: "Most of the people on Fox are opinion journalists"
"Just because you read it somewhere doesn't mean it's true"
I choose that specific source because it was a source that you deemed reliable enough to use as a source in a previous comment.
"But then you have to agree that your center might be biased and you would never know."
Everyone is biased. The issue isn't 'which of us is biased' but 'which of us acknowledges and compensates for bias'.
There's a variation on the golden rule that I like: 'Treat everyone 10% better than they treat you to compensate for subjective error'. The idea is that by acknowledging your own bias in how you think, you can become fair and unbiased in how you behave.
People who don't acknowledge their own bias can't be trusted to properly compensate for it.
"I watch whatever I watch. I am mature enough to make right judgment, without being subject to influence."
This is the same kind of naivety that leads people to say "I'm not influenced by advertising" despite all the evidence that pretty much everyone is.
If you don't think that you're influenced by media then you're exactly the sort of person most likely to be influenced by it. If you don’t acknowledge that it’s happening, you can’t question yourself about it after the fact.
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Date: 2014-06-27 12:33 pm (UTC)You did: "Most of the people on Fox are opinion journalists"
"Just because you read it somewhere doesn't mean it's true"
I choose that specific source because it was a source that you deemed reliable enough to use as a source in a previous comment.
"But then you have to agree that your center might be biased and you would never know."
Everyone is biased. The issue isn't 'which of us is biased' but 'which of us acknowledges and compensates for bias'.
There's a variation on the golden rule that I like: 'Treat everyone 10% better than they treat you to compensate for subjective error'. The idea is that by acknowledging your own bias in how you think, you can become fair and unbiased in how you behave.
People who don't acknowledge their own bias can't be trusted to properly compensate for it.
"I watch whatever I watch. I am mature enough to make right judgment, without being subject to influence."
This is the same kind of naivety that leads people to say "I'm not influenced by advertising" despite all the evidence that pretty much everyone is.
If you don't think that you're influenced by media then you're exactly the sort of person most likely to be influenced by it. If you don’t acknowledge that it’s happening, you can’t question yourself about it after the fact.