Impartiality and honesty, freedom from self-interest, prejudice, or favoritism. In controversial matters, fairness demands a courageous weighing of evidence.
Reports about known facts (the millions gassed by the Nazis, the accelerating changes in earth’s climate) are unfair to the information consumer if they seek an equity between multiple stakeholders, thereby creating false equivalencies.
News Literacy methods emphasize the search for journalism that is marked by fairness to the evidence and honesty about its relative weight.
