Ah bias. Everyone’s favorite word, it seems, when it comes to journalism in general. For some reason, many news outlets are terrified of being seen as “biased.”
One of the biggest weaknesses in the last 50 years of journalism is this fear that an outlet will write or produce something – and it will be interpreted as biased against one group or the other.
It’s a mistake. In truth, we are all biased – so are journalists. By pretending we aren’t the profession has suffered tremendously. People tend to lose trust in you when you lie to them – especially about their biases.
We at Mid Bay News are biased – and that’s ok. We believe the standard needs to be fairness to all. By acknowledging that we have biases (and what they are) we can identify them in our work and make sure every point of view gets a fair shake in our publication. It all starts with being honest with ourselves – and you, the readers, about who we are and what we believe.
If you’d like to see the beliefs we hold, our mission and our vision statements – head over to our “About Us” page here.
In an effort to be more transparent about our biases and what they are – we want to list the causes and statements we have publicly written about on Midbaynews.com so that you can easily reference them here.
Let us know if this works for you and is a useful tool for you as you read our content!
We fully endorse any effort to consolidate the public services of the cities of Niceville and Valparaiso. Here’s Why:
Christopher wrote his who Action Report (like a thesis) for his graduate school work. You can read it in its entirety here.
We fully support the renewal of a half-cent sales tax in Okaloosa County. The half cent sales tax has brought more than $415 million in tax and grant revenue to bear on the infrastructure issues we face in Okaloosa County – while not significantly increasing the tax burden on residents.
Rough estimates put the amount of sales tax paid into the funds used by the Infrastructure Surtax bank accounts by tourists to be about half of the total from that funding source. Those monies accrued through sales tax have been more than met dollar for dollar by matching grants given by the state and federal governments as well as other groups, like the BP Oil Spill money. It’s a good deal for Okaloosa County residents and saves roughly $300 a year that the county would otherwise have to levy on residents to pay for these improvements.
To the right (on web – or below on mobile), you can see what the money has been allocated to and what has been completely already. Pretty transparent, in our opinion.
Graham Fountain once called Christopher Saul, our founder, a “Mackeral Snapping Papist.” It didn’t sound like it was intended as a positive thing – but we think it is!
To that end, we do our best to align with all Catholic teachings.
We’ll just leave a link to the Catechism of the Catholic Church here. If it’s in there – we believe it. We would just normally say “The Bible,” but people have a nasty habit of interepereting The Good Book to fit their beliefs – especially about issues not explicitly addressed in it. Hence, the Catechism.
Pro Communi Bono
St. Francis De Sales, Ora Pro Nobis!
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