ext_48536 ([identity profile] peristaltor.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2014-01-19 08:18 pm (UTC)

Objective journalism can exist if journalists want it.

See, after finishing your recommended book, I would disagree with that. That was, after all, the point of the TED talk, that objectivity is impossible. We are all the product of our perspective.

If anything, the message of Infamous Scribblers was that the founders wanted not an objective press, but at least one balanced with differing points of view (especially when the differing points agreed with their own).

And if no one gives Matt Tahibi hits, journalism can be considered moribund if not DOA.

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