Re:from the article (Score 4, Informative)

All journalists, and all journals, are inherently biased. No single reporter or editor can hope to compile even an approximation of "truth," in its totality, for her or his readers.

Due to its ownership, most mass media around the world has either a corporate bias (the global big-6 media monopolies are more beholden to their shareholders and advertisers than to the public interest) or government bias (totalitarian nations and state-sponsored media outlets). Even non-profit and non-commercial media outlets suffer from the whims of their donors and owners.

The philosophies behind the IMC network is that technology and the open-publishing model are expanding media-access for everyone: the poor, the under-educated, activists, advocacy groups, fringe dissidents, working people - anyone. Meanwhile, the "consensus" process allows each IMC editorial collective to put together featured content that all participants endorse and stand behind (or, at least, stand aside). This still-experimental paradigm is radically different from the hierarchical editorial structure of corporate and government media.