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    5 months ago

    That doesn’t mean journalists should go around and give into these biases without clearly stating that

    How? I mean, I agree - but I think you’re probably saying that’s what an Opinion article is for. But a news article that doesn’t state its biases is not unbiased. And I haven’t seen any news articles where bias is stated.

    Who’s not an environmentalist?

    Fossil fuel companies?

    True, in the corporations-are-people sense, but use of the term predates that.

    and environmentalist seems sufficiently descriptive and neutral to me to fulfil that role.

    Are you an environmentalist? You know - one of them?

    Yes. Are you? I don’t see the problem here.

    I don’t know what ‘an environmentalist’ is - as discussed, the news made it up. But as one, would you please define it and explain your bias, y’know, like a news reporter would?

    Maybe the journalist is one themselves. They didn’t say? That’s the point.

    Mmmnnoo, they didn’t say. You’re suggesting they would? Or that that is normally done? Again, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen that.