On: NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs

[Vaslo]

It can exist if you list all important facts, not just the ones that tell the story you want.

NPR is definitely not doing that. A single fact or a group of handpicked facts is not the truth.

[el_benhameen → Vaslo]

Huh? Who determines which facts are important to a story? It’s turtles all the way down.

[daedalus_j → el_benhameen]

Let's make up an example:

Fact A) Carrots are healthy. Fact B) Carrots may be carcinogenic.

These are both inherently important facts to any story talking about the health, or danger, of carrots. To present a position on if one should be eating carrots or not, without including both of these facts, is to handpick facts to tell the story you want to tell.

[jahsome → daedalus_j]

Handpicking, aka gatekeeping, is a core tenet of journalism. It's a requirement of the newsgathering process and determining which facts are relevant (newsworthy) _is_ a reporter's job, while the editorial process provides the necessary checks and balances.