Objectivism has created a generation of journalists who write unfeeling qoutes like "we will wipe Israel of the map" with the same charge and gusto as "Beluga caviar is going extict". In this warped version of reporting, Nazism was never an evil, just another opinion.
posted by Yosef @ 11:55 PM
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8 Comments:
sweet, but journalism is supposed to be objective. all people obviously have an opinion, but were they to take sides, all hell would break loose. Al Jazeera or Haaretz are examples of journalists who are shameless about their stance... what do they tell us?
They take sides anyway. Being non-pulsed by evil is taking a side. The journalist's who cried at Auchwitz where they being "objective"? or humane.
you're drawing a weak comparison. they're not hybrids, and we're not talking about an extreme situation. to them, the situation in israel is just another political rift over a small miserable country. you're right - everyone takes sides. but there is no reason for them to get emotional about quoting arabs campaigning for israel's destruction.
I ain't talking about Israel per se. I'm talikng about the outmoded belief that Journalism can be objective. It can't, we can't, be objective. When his terrorist is your freedom fighter no journalististic scruple can save objectivisim from flying out a window.
duh. so what? we're human. everyone's subjective. what's the chiddush?
"Being non-pulsed by evil is taking a side."
Cheers :-)
My point is, stop accusing the BBC of being anti semitic when FOX news is pro semitic. It is the pretense that their is something called journalistic rules, a constitution if you'd like, that govern's the production news. There is no such thing, it's a lie. And the proof is no two news outlets will produce the same exact story.
1) journalism is a business and each news outlet slants the news to appeal to it's market (or perhaps hires journalists with the correct slant to begin with). If not, there would not be a reason to have more than one news source for anything.
2) Without context and labeling the news is meaningless. Once you apply the context and labels you have automatically introduced some level of subjectivity.
Example:
"Palestinitan nationalist engages the enemy - eliminating 10 zionist oppressors" - Al-Jazzera
"Arab suicide bomber murders 10 innocent civilians" Jewish Press
"Man explodes himself killing 10"-Yosef Objective News
3) I dont believe that any person can be purely objective - epecially journalists who are both looking for recognition and desire to be perceived as a moral voice.
Its up to the reader to analyze and choose what to read and accept as factual.
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