Jay RosenMay 22, 2023

This is something you should know about. From CJR. https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/amanpour_sulzberger_licht_baron_lowery_objectivity.php

"In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential campaign, the bosses are speaking out. In interviews and op-eds, senior figures in the world of American journalism are pushing back against critics of traditional 'objectivity,' hoping to reset the tone as newsrooms enter a political season that will likely be more tainted by disinformation and more dangerous for reporters than any in recent memory."

#uspol #journalism

The view from the top

<p>In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential campaign, the bosses are speaking out. In interviews and op-eds, senior figures in the world of American journalism are pushing back against critics of traditional “objectivity,” hoping to reset the tone as newsrooms enter a political season that will likely be more tainted by disinformation and more dangerous […]</p>

Columbia Journalism Review
Show threadAndrew Davies

@jayrosen_nyu Nice quote, "Independence calls for plainly stating the facts, even if they appear to favor one side of a dispute."

I'm not convinced they'll back reporters who live up to it.

May 22, 2023 at 5:01pmWeb
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️May 22, 2023

@andrew @jayrosen_nyu

“Be truthful, but not neutral,” Amanpour urged. “Bothsidesism is not always objectivity. It does not get you to the truth. Drawing false moral or factual equivalence is neither objective or truthful.

Objectivity is our golden rule and it is in weighing all the sides and hearing all the evidence, but not rushing to equate them when there is no equating.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/media/christiane-amanpour-trump-town-hall-reliable-sources/index.html

#FactualNotNeutral #Journalism #Journalists #News #Media #Politics #USPolitics #USA

Show threadAndrew DaviesMay 23, 2023
@ZhiZhu @jayrosen_nyu Great quote!