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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Establishment Bar: This isn't neutrality. This isn't objectivity. This is appeasement.
https://establishmentbar.blogspot.com/2020/04/this-isnt-neutrality-this-isnt.htmlAs I tweeted, too much of our media has no idea how to confront Trump. You have the standouts like Yamiche Alcindor. (No surprise that she's a Black woman.) But journalists like her are not thick on the ground. Too many journalists cling to the fake standard of "objectivity", not wanting to be "seen as the story", and allow the Trump regime to get away with lie after lie, in their write-ups couching any disagreement in "both sides say".
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Objectivity is an illusion. Objectivity only works, if it ever does, when all sides agree on a shared reality. We don't have that. Trump and his sycophants operate on a plane unrelated to the real world. To treat them as if they have valid points is not to present objective evidence, but to elevate their delusions to a place of prominence they don't deserve. It's the opposite of objectivity. It downgrades observable fact to just another "opinion". People who believe in a flat earth don't have a differing, valid viewpoint. They're loons who are shunned from any serious discussion. Likewise with Trump and his coterie. They're actually worse than flat earthers or anti-vaxxers, as they control a branch and a half of government. But because they occupy that unearned perch, too much of the media feels it has to accord them a respect which their words and actions don't deserve.
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The Establishment Bar: This isn't neutrality. This isn't objectivity. This is appeasement. (Original Post)
New Breed Leader
Apr 2020
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The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)1. Indeed, Sir
"A journalist's job, when one person says it is raining and another says it isn't, is not to report that opinions differ, but to step outside and see if he gets wet."
New Breed Leader
(625 posts)2. Exactly right.