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How Racial Injustice Undermines News Sources and News-Based Inferences

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Eric Bayruns García*
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California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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Abstract

I argue racial injustice undermines the reliability of news source reports in the information domain of racial injustice. I argue that this in turn undermines subjects’ doxastic justification in inferences they base on these news sources in the racial injustice information domain. I explain that racial injustice does this undermining through the effect of racial prejudice on news organizations’ members and the effect of society's racially unjust structure on non-dominant racial group-controlled news sources.

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Racial injusticeepistemology of journalismepistemic injusticereliabilismjustificationracephilosophy of racesocial epistemologycoverage-supported beliefepistemology

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Episteme , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 409 - 430
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