Yeah it’s an opinion piece but some interesting stuff about how even conservative journalists when they don’t toe the line are pushed to the side.

  • Eiren (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    The BBC are accused of bias “from both sides” because their job is to establish and defend the establishment’s preferred Overton window; or in other words, to set the standard for what “impartial”/“common sense” is held to be.

    To the extent political beliefs are down to individual values and preferences, there is no objective centre, and moderacy amounts to a “golden mean” bias. On the other hand, to the extent political claims are able to be proven or disproven by science, at least one side must be wrong and only one can be right, and so the centre is simply ignorant.