A journalist can do a good job being unbiased for a given news story, but the selection of what news story to cover can be as biased as all hell. Sometimes (often), the bias is what brings in the dollars: advertising, donations, prestige from winning Pulitzer prizes yielding more money. Write what the readers want to read. It's almost pulp fiction.
Is there a mechanism which avoids this bias? Selects the most important stories. I suspect newspapers (etc.) would look very, very different.
Idea: estimated dollar effect per reader. How do you estimate the dollar effect of a baby trapped in a well? I do think it's possible: some dollar equivalent measure of happiness.
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