It’s true—media is biased.
But so are you. And so am I. We each come from our own perspective, culture, and history, which gives each of us a bias. The problem comes, though, when we can’t see the bias in the air we breathe; when we see the majority view, or “our” people’s view, as a standard, as normal, as unbiased.
We must begin to see that everything is biased, including me. Then, we use that realization—but not to discount everything. Rather, we allow the various perspectives we encounter to give us a richer, rounder, more 3-D view of reality than we are able to have on our own.
I would argue that our stories, values, and perspectives are more faulty, less complete, and less true, when we screen out perspectives that are different from our own. We need a wide open pursuit of truth.
This is why many call for increasing diversity. Diversity is not a task to check off as done, or a token person to add to our group—ongoing diverse perspectives are how we, together, construct more healthy, true, honest, and robust stories to explain the world we live in.
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