This is one area where richer countries can learn a lot from poorer countries, should they choose to listen.
When I lived in Liberia, there were about 10-15 different newspapers in the capital, from websites to print to one guy with a massive chalk board on the main road. This diversity of sources served quite a small population, but there was a massive appetite for news.
In such a situation, you don't expect impartiality, but each news organisation's perspective sites is more obvious, and reading about events from multiple perspectives gives, in my view, a broader and clearer window into what happened.
I think it could make sense to value in news, not impartiality, but diversity of viewpoints.
Conveniently, the internet does make this much easier.
When I lived in Liberia, there were about 10-15 different newspapers in the capital, from websites to print to one guy with a massive chalk board on the main road. This diversity of sources served quite a small population, but there was a massive appetite for news.
In such a situation, you don't expect impartiality, but each news organisation's perspective sites is more obvious, and reading about events from multiple perspectives gives, in my view, a broader and clearer window into what happened.
I think it could make sense to value in news, not impartiality, but diversity of viewpoints.
Conveniently, the internet does make this much easier.