User:Ed Poor/bias

The psychology of bias
It's easy to write about a controversial topic when you don't care one way or another about it. If you are impartial, it's easy to be objective and matter of fact.

It's hard to avoid bias when you favor one of the sides. Try as you might, the tendency creeps in to portray one side in a better light than the other, often without you realizing it.

The best measure of an unbiased article is that each side in the controversy agrees that its own side has been portrayed accurately.