Let's Just Admit It: All Forms of Journalism, Have Their BIASES (and Citizens MUST Partake in Fact-Checking)
I confess that I'm no fact-checker or journalist. I wanted to take AB Mass Communications, but I didn't find a better school. Instead, I took BS Business Administration (general) all before the course was declared obsolete. There have been crazy claims online, such as fetus soup from China. I went to China and realized it was a sham. In fact, it turned out to be a sham and that the "fetus soup" pictures were more than what I'd call, a distasteful performance art . I wasn't too happy about ABS-CBN's role in promoting anti-charter change ads. However, I believe that no one is free from biases. Jeff Canoy of ABS-CBN admits a truth we all need to hear: In a forum titled “Campus Patrol,” ABS-CBN News chief of reporters Jeff Canoy said journalists are “biased” as their values protrude from the way they craft their stories, but objectivity would come into play when they verify information . “Actually, all [forms of] journalism [are] biased because the way I wou...