RE: Is Everyone's Opinion Equal And Valuable? No. "Free Speech" And Reactionary News Cycles
It's quite a complex issue. It has a lot to do with the way we consume news and media now. Unfortunately it has likely ruined news forever.
I'm getting frustrated with it too. Even watching the supposedly unbiased BBC news is an irritating experience when most opinions are weighed equally, even some pretty fringe ones. It's left to the viewers to decide who to believe but you can't trust them to do it since most of them care more about how an issue makes them feel rather than how it should actually be addressed.
When someone like Tommy Robinson for example is given time on a platform which occasionally hosts the prime minister and his views go poorly challenged, that's not unbiased journalism, it's timid journalism. Everybody is right, there are no wrong answers any more and nobody should ever need to suffer the indignity of having their point of view challenged, no matter how stupid.
Agreed. Faux-Neutrality is cancerous garbage and mainstream cable news in most places is just unwatchable.
I tried watching local news at my grandparent's house, wasn't even FOX or CNN, but still it was so cringe and all the issues they discussed that weren't local news and that I had already seen were wildly narrated and left open to interpretation too many times. It's bizarre.