The framing of journalistic neutrality? The headline is correct, the attribution is also correct. The article reports facts without editorialization. There was in fact a station in the middle of nowhere, the transit authority did indeed provide the quoted justification. Pictures went viral, it explained the pictures. If anything, it puts planning in a sympathetic light by reporting the intention instead of making fun of the station.
I just don’t think the article conveys the incomprehensibility of planning that you’re claiming it does. There are surely enough actual cases of that phenomenon that you don’t have to scrape the barrel for weak examples.
Even here the ‘so say’ bit clearly creates the same framing as the title.
The framing of journalistic neutrality? The headline is correct, the attribution is also correct. The article reports facts without editorialization. There was in fact a station in the middle of nowhere, the transit authority did indeed provide the quoted justification. Pictures went viral, it explained the pictures. If anything, it puts planning in a sympathetic light by reporting the intention instead of making fun of the station.
I just don’t think the article conveys the incomprehensibility of planning that you’re claiming it does. There are surely enough actual cases of that phenomenon that you don’t have to scrape the barrel for weak examples.
If you think that’s what journalistic neutrality looks like I really don’t know what else to tell you here.
What part of the headline or article is not neutral? It doesn’t disparage the existence of the station at all.
None of it is neutral, and the bias is incredibly obvious to anybody reading it objectively.