Some say that transparency is the ideological future of journalism, but our brains might not be up to the task.
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Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counterevidence. By Jonas T. Kaplan, Sarah I. Gimbel and Sam Harris, Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 39589 (2016): http://www.nature.com/articles/srep39589
Priming us and them: Automatic assimilation and contrast in group attitudes. By Ledgerwood, Alison; Chaiken, Shelly Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 93(6), Dec 2007, 940-956: http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuyandid=2007-17941-003
Transparency is the New Objectivity, by David Weinberger (via Joho): http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/19/transparency-is-the-new-objectivity/
The View from Nowhere QandA, by Jay Rosen (via PressThink): http://pressthink.org/2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/
Nature’s peer-review policy: http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/peer_review.html
The Blur Between Analysis and Opinion, by Clark Hoyt (via The New York Times): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/opinion/13pubed.html
Wikipedia’s “Neutral Point of View” Editing Standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
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