Reporters in Las Vegas Try to Crack Case of Who Owns Their Newspaper
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Does anyone else see a contradiction here? By not knowing who the owner is, no reporter can bias any article for or against the owner. If they never find out then they'll have the only unbiased publication in history. That should more than compensate for 'lack of transparency'.
It seems that management (and presumably that extends to senior/chief editors) are aware; and those are usually the ones who dictate what is covered and how.
Complete transparency or bust, especially in an organization like this.
The issue of individual reporters biasing individual articles is extremely small potatoes. Unfortunately, it is what most people think of when thinking 'media bias'.
The much more serious issue is larger systemic bias where reporting about {X1,...,Xn} potentially never even sees the light of day, or is systemically edited in particular ways, without anyone other than top people knowing why.