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Biases and Journalism.

For this blog post, I decided to take it back to the very beginning of school. To our discussion of what makes a good journalist.
When we discussed what makes a good journalist and good journalism, the class was asked to share out what we believed the aspects of good journalism to be. Among the many standards, the quality of unbiased was presented. This aspect stuck with me and made me think deeper about what it entails from a journalistic point of view.
Of course it makes since. We as people appreciate our new and media to be completely objective. We want the facts with one hundred percent certainty that they haven't been given to us with a kind of filter on them. But i think it's important to realize just how biased we as humans are.
No matter if we'd like to admit it or not, everyone has biases. Even journalists. Which means that a lot of the things that you'll find out in the media is definitely biased. Whether it's that of the writer or the company overlooking it, the journalism that we see every day is more likely than not, biased.
But I do agree, that in the most perfect circumstances and in the perfect world, all news outlets and papers and journalists would be free of their own biases. Yet in the one that we live in, biases are just another fact of life. And just another fact of journalism.

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