Journalism should not be “objective.”

Posted on March 27th, 2007 by Chris.
Categories: Chris, Philosophy, Politics.

1) Objectivity is an illusion. I wrote a ridiculous entry on this the other day, but the point is that, simply by moving from an event to writing or videotaping the event, there is an ever present and strong cast that a reporter’s own perception makes on the event.

2) As a result of the societal illusion of objectivity, people can be fooled into believing that news is objective, thus causing them to think in the way the reporter thinks. But much worse than that, people may assume this way of thinking is objective.

Humans have opinions. Trying to judge the world critically and objectively is good. Pretending that one can throw away their biases when doing so for others is dishonesty.

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