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."

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<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>

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In a lot of today’s cases objectivity should be overridden by an overwhelming ponderance of right vs wrong.
Some purely evil concepts don’t have an ethical objective opposite.
Like tax cuts for the upper 10% at the cost of the 90% below.
Like voting not to pay for those tax cuts without blackmailing people with austerity.
May 22, 2023 at 5:11pmWeb