"O’Brien said impartiality in news coverage was all too often, in reality, bias, since it required broadcasters to give false equivalence to those speaking objective truth and those making baseless assertions."
(The Guardian.)
Did O'Brien say that impartialty was bias?
tkacka15 Did O'Brien say that impartiality was bias? Yes, but what he meant was that trying too hard to be impartial can result in too much attention being given to incorrect ideas and information.
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tkacka15Did O'Brien say that impartiality was bias?
Yes, but what he meant was that trying too hard to be impartial can result in too much attention being given to incorrect ideas and information.
Did O'Brien say that impartialty was bias?
No.
He said that it was too often bias.