Spoken like a true liberal journalist“I would emphatically say its not a left-right thing. I’ve never discerned in his reporting any ideological movement,” one ABC News source told POLITICO. “It’s the big sensational story that he’s after, and he’ll do the same on either side.”
Words mean things, people! There are no liberal journalists. There are only journalists who, by claiming objectivity for themselves - or, as in this case, other journalists who would return the favor for themselves - betray extreme tendentiousness.The only way to even try to be objective is to be open about any reasons you know of why you might not be objective. And since this Is impossible to do when you are claiming that you actually are objective, people who claim to be objective aren’t even trying to be objective. No matter how much they prattle of their own “fact checking and telling both sides of the story.” People who think they are objective actually can’t really see that there are any other sides to the story than their own.
People to whom journalists give positive labels - such as “progressive” or “moderate” or “liberal” - are simply people who help journalists criticize and second guess the people who work to a bottom line and are relied on to get things done.
Very goog post in a very good thread of posts. Thanks for the ping to the thread, c_I_c.