An ‘Objective’ Press Won’t Alert You to Threats to Democracy
If you follow the New York Times’ approach to journalism, your audience won’t know when their government is acting illegally, or denying truth and reality.
CNN Needs More Than a New CEO—It Needs a New Model of Journalism
News execs see themselves as non-ideological truth-tellers, yet bend over backwards to both-sides every issue.
Sorry, Sulzberger—NYT’s Anti-Trans ‘News’ Is Neither True Nor Important
Critics aren’t asking the New York Times to “skew” or “censor” its trans-related coverage. We’re asking the Times to stop skewing it.
‘Objectivity’ Obliterates Empathy and Curiosity
The real threat to democracy is that too many arbiters of what gets published cling to notions of “objectivity” that were never fair.
Bret Stephens Says Journalists Admitting Values Would ‘End United States’
In his crusade for “objectivity,” Bret Stephens seems, ironically, to have thrown inconvenient evidence out the window.
Is Surviving Assault a Conflict of Interest?
The idea that experiencing sexual violence makes someone unable to fairly report on it is a relic of the journalistic myth of “objectivity.”
AP Firing Shows Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Illusion of ‘Objectivity’
Wilder told FAIR that the vagueness of when such standards of objectivity apply meant these standards could be “asymmetrically imposed on certain journalists in a way that has censored and policed journalists before me.”
For Politico, ‘Objectivity’ Means Asking Only Arms Industry Sources About an Arms Industry Endorsement
Election Focus 2020: The obvious questions the endorsement raises are how it might influence Biden’s military policy, and perhaps whether such an endorsement would be demotivating for antiwar voters in Biden’s voter base.
Forget Objectivity—Can We Have a Fact-Based Media?
There is no objective evidence that allowing two people of the same gender to marry will harm mixed-gender marriages. So you might think objective reporting would treat that assertion as a dubious claim.
Objectivity and Its Opposite, ‘Objectivity’
One of the most confusing terms in the media discussion is “objectivity.” In philosophy, it refers to a belief in a reality independent of the conscious mind, generally one that can more or less be known and meaningfully discussed. In journalism, on the other hand, it means “don’t scare away any potential customers.” “Objective” journalism […]
Olbermann and the Cult of Objectivity
I agree with Keith Olbermann (11/15/10) about the dubious value of “objectivity” as a journalistic value; he makes a telling point about how journalistic icons like Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow are most honored for the moments when they reached conclusions and asserted values. And I think he’s right that the U.S. media establishment’s […]
With Juan Williams, the Question Is Not Objectivity, But Bigotry
It seems to me that debating Juan Williams’ firing from NPR in terms of the role of “opinion” and “objectivity” in journalism is missing the point. Williams has expressed his opinions on Fox News countless times. Other NPR employees frequently express opinions, too, as when Scott Simon wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal […]
‘Objectivity’—Sotomayor’s, Sessions’ and AP’s
In another example of how the racist record of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s top Republican questioner has gone down the memory hole, Associated Press had a whole story (7/19/09) about Sen. Jeff Sessions’ assertions that Sotomayor was too prejudiced to get his vote without mentioning that the Senate Judiciary Committee had rejected Sessions when […]
