The cult wants to control the message..... Go figure.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/07/the-mainstream-media-have-given-up-on-truth/
At the end of January, one of the most experienced and well-respected figures in American media authored an op-ed in the Washington Post. In it, Leonard Downie Jr essentially throws the entire idea of objective truth under the proverbial bus.
Downie was executive editor of the Washington Post for nearly two decades, and was one of the editors who worked on the famed Watergate story that led to President Nixon’s resignation. In the op-ed published last month, he writes that ‘truth-seeking news media must move beyond whatever “objectivity” once meant to produce more trustworthy news’.
I thought I couldn’t get any more disappointed in or cynical about the mainstream media, but even a jaded old-timer like me finds it difficult to accept how far this industry has fallen.
According to Downie, the way to gain trust from the public is to abandon objectivity – an argument Downie makes while still calling the media and journalists ‘truth-seeking’. I suppose he just assumes we will take him at his word. Orwell would be proud.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/07/the-mainstream-media-have-given-up-on-truth/
At the end of January, one of the most experienced and well-respected figures in American media authored an op-ed in the Washington Post. In it, Leonard Downie Jr essentially throws the entire idea of objective truth under the proverbial bus.
Downie was executive editor of the Washington Post for nearly two decades, and was one of the editors who worked on the famed Watergate story that led to President Nixon’s resignation. In the op-ed published last month, he writes that ‘truth-seeking news media must move beyond whatever “objectivity” once meant to produce more trustworthy news’.
I thought I couldn’t get any more disappointed in or cynical about the mainstream media, but even a jaded old-timer like me finds it difficult to accept how far this industry has fallen.
According to Downie, the way to gain trust from the public is to abandon objectivity – an argument Downie makes while still calling the media and journalists ‘truth-seeking’. I suppose he just assumes we will take him at his word. Orwell would be proud.
