Sure if you just call it “honest reporting”. But that was not the full phrase used. The full phrase used was “honest reporting of unconsciously biased reasoning”.
I would not call trimming that down to “honest reporting” a case of honest reporting! ;-)
If I claim, “Joe says X, and I think he honestly believes that, though his reasoning is likely unconsciously biased here”, then that does not at all seem to me like an endorsement of X, and certainly not a clear endorsement.
It’s a pretty clear way of endorsing something to call it “honest reporting”.
Sure if you just call it “honest reporting”. But that was not the full phrase used. The full phrase used was “honest reporting of unconsciously biased reasoning”.
I would not call trimming that down to “honest reporting” a case of honest reporting! ;-)
If I claim, “Joe says X, and I think he honestly believes that, though his reasoning is likely unconsciously biased here”, then that does not at all seem to me like an endorsement of X, and certainly not a clear endorsement.