The neutral position is one that is presented without bias.
Making excuses for this kind of bias, which is motivated by a major undisclosed financial conflict of interest, and which completely undermines journalistic integrity, is the irresponsible attitude that has allowed the culture of professionalism and ethics to degrade to this point.
There is no neutral, bias-free position. Acting like there is already displays bias.
The undisclosed financial interest is they're in a union? What a joke, as if the existence of other unions suddenly changes their own. And what a joke to bring up California, where Uber and all of these shitty companies lobbied to pass an unconstitutional law to their benefit. Maybe that's the financial conflict of interest I give a fuck about, not whether or not the media and goods I consume are union products.
>>The undisclosed financial interest is they're in a union?
Yes. Legitimizing unionization directly bolsters their market position. Anti-gig-economy laws can even cause their employer to totally cease reliance on freelancers, as seen in the example I provided with Vox Media.
This conflict of interests needs to at the very least be disclosed when they write about unionization and labor mandates.
>>And what a joke to bring up California, where Uber and all of these shitty companies lobbied to pass an unconstitutional law to their benefit.
You didn't even address my point. You just went off on a tangent, while falsely implying that it invalidates the point I made.
This attitude of extreme self-righteous bias and lack of regard for principles of professional and political integrity that you're exhibiting is the reason things have degraded to this point. Any one not in your ideological bubble that sees how prevalent your attitude has become amongst your political tribe is going to become polarized in opposition to it.
> The neutral position is one that is presented without bias.
It seems like for you, "without bias" means biased towards the owners of papers, whereas bias towards the interests of workers "completely undermines journalistic integrity."
Find me a single person who doesn't have a financial interest in the costs of health care who isn't dead.
Without bias means not taking the side of the unionized Vox Media writers over the hundreds of freelancers that Vox Media let go of to comply with the anti-gig-economy law that those unionized journalists advocated for in their articles.
Making excuses for this kind of bias, which is motivated by a major undisclosed financial conflict of interest, and which completely undermines journalistic integrity, is the irresponsible attitude that has allowed the culture of professionalism and ethics to degrade to this point.