My university informal logic professor gave us just such an assignment, i.e., find a story covered by a liberal newspaper and the same story by a conservative paper. At the time, I didn't even know what a Liberal or Conservative was! Nevertheless I resolved that I would do something about my ignorance. More than 40 years later, I wrote my old logic professor to thank him for being such a HUGE influence in my life—that assignment being a lesson I never forgot.
I was 'happy' to report that identifying the difference between 'liberal' and 'conservative' has never been easier than it is today!
Thank you for issuing this challenge and posing thoughtful questions. It's been evident for some time that we are living in an era of advocacy journalism. I recently canceled my subscription to an international news service for this reason. If I can't trust their reporting on one topic about which I have some knowledge, how can I trust it on other topics about which I know nothing?
My university informal logic professor gave us just such an assignment, i.e., find a story covered by a liberal newspaper and the same story by a conservative paper. At the time, I didn't even know what a Liberal or Conservative was! Nevertheless I resolved that I would do something about my ignorance. More than 40 years later, I wrote my old logic professor to thank him for being such a HUGE influence in my life—that assignment being a lesson I never forgot.
I was 'happy' to report that identifying the difference between 'liberal' and 'conservative' has never been easier than it is today!
Thank you for issuing this challenge and posing thoughtful questions. It's been evident for some time that we are living in an era of advocacy journalism. I recently canceled my subscription to an international news service for this reason. If I can't trust their reporting on one topic about which I have some knowledge, how can I trust it on other topics about which I know nothing?
Exactly right. One's epistemological methodology doesn't change much from subject to subject.
NB: the latin phrase meaning: "who benefits?" is spelled: "cui bono?"
Thank you!