Objectivity and Balance Requirements
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 requires the CPB to operate with a "strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature". It also requires it to regularly review national programming for objectivity and balance, and to report on "its efforts to address concerns about objectivity and balance".
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“Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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