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Do you think that in this day and age, it is possible for newspapers to be unbiased and still run?

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Small, local ones. We have one here that only reports on local news. If not a lot goes on they just post a lot of nostalgia stuff like old pictures. No opinion sections, no social media, no website. Just a local newspaper. It’s beautiful. 

 
Investigative journalism has incredible value. Both local and National news manage to uncover huge items, and without them we would truly be in the dark. 
 

there’s a lot of smut that circulates but the world needs the news. 

 
Miller said:
Small, local ones. We have one here that only reports on local news. If not a lot goes on they just post a lot of nostalgia stuff like old pictures. No opinion sections, no social media, no website. Just a local newspaper. It’s beautiful. 
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Very much this.

 
I think this is a question that bears more resonance to contemporary US society than necessarily anything else, but even there, and if that is thought of as a sharper manifestation of a larger global trend, with all the loosening social contracts, breaking down of structures, patterns and order, and the increasing alienation of all sections of the polity in respect of feelings of the justness of the system, I think there are all sorts of people still in the world with all kinds of appetites. Wherever one's 'unbiased' falls on the larger matrix, I think there's a supplier in the market, and that's I believe a benefit of having a 8 billion globalized globe. More people, more intensive coupling. Double formula. 

On the other hand, the business model of the mid level news aggregator seems to have taken a hit, with the trend towards either very small or very big news outlets, with mid levels becoming increasingly dependent on sponsorship - that's a different topic. And this too need not necessarily be a bad thing. 

 
It is impossible for anyone to be unbiased including newspapers. But that was already the case decades and centuries ago.

 
No, but it is valuable that they aren’t strictly unbiased. If you know the bias of the paper you can look at it through that lens and compare it to other news sources in order to get a more complete story

 
Fully echo Cob’s sentiments here. Bias isn’t inherently bad as long as it’s acknowledged by the publisher. What creates problems is when a biased source tries to pass itself off as unbiased and convinced its readership of such.

 
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