A Single Sentence & Video re The State of Mass Media Today
If contemporary mass media were engaged in journalism, Trump wouldn’t be President.
If contemporary mass media were engaged in journalism, Trump wouldn’t be President.
02/27/2020 @ 8:08 am
If you want to see the Robles, read Dean Baquet of the New York Times on “sophisticated objectivity.” What is important to note is that it’s Orwellian Newspeak. The biggest change in US policy is that impartiality and objectivity no longer overlap. He’s gone with impartiality and called it objectivity. It is not, at all. It is cowardly scorekeeping and trying to maintain a.middle ground. If someone were holding negotiations between Mazis and Jews in 1942, the Nazis wanted to kill six million and the Jews wanted zero, sophisticated objectivity would split the difference at three million or maybe two million and call it virtuous. That’s impartiality. The objective truth is that mass murder is wrong.
02/27/2020 @ 8:34 am
Journalism is advocacy.
The true journalist advocates articulating and publishing the truth.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
——George Orwell
There is no ethical obligation, or moral imperative, to give ‘alternative facts’ equal time.
The First Amendment guarantees the protection of the publication of the truth. It does not provide the same protection for the gathering of facts.
The terms: fair, balanced, and impartial are not the equivalent of journalistic objectivity, but platitudes and euphemisms for the cowardice of the capitalist profiteer in the knowing and willing failure to articulate and publish the truth.
02/27/2020 @ 8:09 am
Not “Robles,” “problem”