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balanced coverage?balanced coverage?Posted Apr 10, 2011 12:30 UTC (Sun) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)In reply to: PJ widely respected by brianomahoney Parent article: Groklaw shutting down in May
> The fact is that PJ is widely respected for her ... and balance,
I don't know what balance is intended by the above, but I largely stopped reading groklaw precisely because it seemed that the coverage was unbalanced: that groklaw was good at digging up what appeared to be problems in SCO's case, but you wouldn't want to rely on it for a balanced, unbiased portrayal of the issues.
Note, that's just my own assessment, made with the amount of care appropriate to readership decisions. (Someone else said that the bias was more generally a pro-IBM bias; I wouldn't know about that.)
I should add that if groklaw is just the product of an individual writing in their spare time about something that interests them, then maybe that one-sidedness is just a reaction to some underhandedness on SCO's part and an attempt to redress the balance. I.e. the lack of balance doesn't necessarily reflect badly on the person; but whatever tributes you may pay to the groklaw work, I wouldn't praise its balanced writing myself.
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balanced coverage? Posted Apr 11, 2011 22:45 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
Since when did *accurate* and *balanced* go together?
The problem with modern reporting is that, if the issue under discussion is black-and-white with only one sensible position, the media feel *obliged* to give "balance" by quoting some kook with a clearly unhinged agenda, but they quote him in all seriousness!
Fortunately, gravity was discovered many years ago, otherwise the press would be fawning all over "karmic levitation" to try to give "balance" to the "alleged discovery"!
Cheers,
balanced coverage? Posted Apr 12, 2011 22:27 UTC (Tue) by pjm (subscriber, #2080) [Link]
People do sometimes mention the word balance when criticizing the journalistic fault that Wol describes, but it's pretty clear that groklaw is *far* from having that fault, and I doubt that that's what brianomahoney meant when praising PJ's balance.
However, given the slanging match that seems to have swallowed the rest of the comments on this article, I don't think we'll gain much by discussing ideals in journalism any further here.
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