All journalists are fully biased, because all humans are fully biased.

This idea you should read journalism & suspend your critical thinking because they are somehow unbiased super humans is hilarious.

I prefer journalists who are partisan and overtly biased because that's more honest. We at least know where they "pretend" to stand.

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I want to choose from a variety of biased sources so I can compare and contrast , totally agree, impartiality is a shitcoin , everyone has skin in the game .

How is this still a job anyway

The most dangerous are the people who want to protect you from accessing the biased information.

Often, the most dangerous to themselves.

There's a difference between journalism & opinion pieces.

Books.

Who is saying we should read journalism and suspend critical thinking?

So you're saying you hate democracy?

Although rare, I know many (mostly Canadians, where I live) who identify as journalists who don't pretend not to be personally biased, but as a journalist strive to share both sides and perspectives of an issue.

Although not a professional journalist myself, I try to do this on social media/blogging, and welcome constructive critical debate when I miss a perspective. You shouldn't know a journalist's position if they are a good journalist -- said another way, if you know a writer's bias or position, they're not a (good) journalist.

It does humanity no good in a polarizing world to go extreme with bias even though the result is more clicks, as that just increases polarization. This also erodes critical thought, as we can easily hear listening to keyboard warriors who follow extreme "news" -- I enjoy telling people what they watch/listen to/read when they share their political position, as their lack of critical thinking and dogma demonstrates this.