It was just my own private joke. You probably know this, but for readers who don’t: bis isn’t often used in US legal materials, but it’s commonly used abroad. For example, the recast of the Brussels I regulation is sometimes called Brussels I bis. This was my way of saying that this post was a do-over of my pre-election post.

A quick search shows that your maxim was used in the closing arguments in the Kvočka case before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which goes to show that there’s always an opportunity for a good Latin maxim.

Bis dat qui cito dat.

“The truth as you see it” doesn’t mean opinion. It means reasonable people can disagree about the facts.

““Unbiased” does not mean “a pox on both your houses.” It means telling the truth as you see it.”

I think this is wrong. “Unbiased” means that news articles present facts in an organized, unweighted fashion. People want to understand what’s going on. They do not care a rat’s behind about what the reporter thinks. The reporter is just some schlemiel with no more qualifications than that guy at the end of the bar.

This is, of course, limited to news articles. In commentary, anything goes.