CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAY
Let Go of Bias For the New Year
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
Much has been written during this election year about bias in the media, whether it is conservatives seeing liberal bias or liberals seeing conservative bias. I would suggest that bias is often in the eye of the beholder.Each of us reads, watches, or listens to media content with our own perceptions of reality and whenever we see or hear something that contradicts or even challenges those perceptions, it is easier to claim bias than to engage in a constructive examination of the facts.
A good New Year's resolution for all of us would be to commit to hold our own biases in check sufficiently long enough to give the media -- as well as our relatives, friends, and even strangers -- an opportunity to express their views in a constructive manner and then try to analyze the facts in an objective manner to draw opinions or conclusions.
Whether one loves FOX News or ABC, The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, Ross Mackenzie or Garrison Keillor, give the other side a chance to make its case without pre-emptively claiming bias.
Rod Elser. Powhatan.
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