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Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social |
"We were fair but perhaps not truthful."
In his new book, a memoir of his career, Times columnist @NickKristof writes, "We shouldn't be neutral about upholding democracy." @oliverdarcy asks him if his colleagues in the press are as clear about this as he is. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/171...
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Terraformer
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I mean, reporting objectively about what a person says and does shouldn't be "really hard to pull off" unless your job depends on keeping your editors, who are loath to print objective reporting, happy
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Aardvark Cheeselog
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And what kind of fair is that? Fair to whom?
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This Sandwichman is Tom Walker
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"Fair" doesn't mean both sides. Why do people who don't know the plain meaning of words get work as journalists?
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@misskayrenee.bsky.social
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Good God, and we’re just doing it all again. 😖
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KC Momkin
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Being untruthful in journalism is being unfair to: The readership The people disadvantaged by lies Other professional journalists Democracy
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