Coverage of Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation Highlights Media Bias

Heather M. Edwards
6 min readMar 15, 2024
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Accuracy and objectivity have always been the stalwart tenet of journalism. These core values almost exclusively distinguish good journalism from bad. While truth used to be the beacon readers expected, could even take for granted, it was in jeopardy long before “alternative facts” turned reality upside down. Now, even objectivity has been downgraded to bias stoking. Reporting…

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