Bad reporting can be traced to two issues. Ignorance, and bias. Bias can be ideological or transactional. Intentional or unintentional. Ignorance is industry standard. You have reporters required to churn out content regularly and they can't always do a deep dive on every report, even if they're reporting on a subject they have a strong background about. "Even if", because such a background is of course, also most often lacking.
Even reports and articles that aren't meant to be opinion pieces often use language and context insidiously to project one impression or another into the reader's mind.
Rather than drawing a hypocritically self-righteous line and pretending our publication would "never" report badly, The Layman's Report was built to safeguard against such biases by expecting them to occur, making them obvious, and then giving real voice to their obvious counterfactors. We're only human. Of course we might write reports that show ignorance and bias. But we structure them so that whatever our failings, you, the reader, will still be able to extract the bare facts and leave any opinions behind.
For most of our reports, the headline makes a statement, supporting and opposing facts are presented, then the reporter is free to ruminate as neutrally or as biasedly as possible at the end of the report.
At The Layman's Report, we don't pretend to be experts or authorities on every subject we report on. We put fact before perspective. Although some of us may be authors outside of our work here, at TLR, we're reporters, not authors.