Journalism isn’t about Truth-—Religion is. Journalism is about FACTS! And they get that wrong or spin it most of the time. There can be true facts.
Pathetic lazy propaganda machines—most so called journalists who refuse to do leg work—why I dumped all newspapers and use people on the internet who have proven to care about the “truth” and admit bias and apologize when they do misquote or make mistakes—as all people will.
You are correct.
However, I’d like to add a caveat.
There are an infinite number of facts. The person writing a history or a news article must pick out which facts he thinks are relevant. By definition (and necessity) he is thereby suppressing some of the facts.
Then from the facts he chooses as relevant he constructs an explanation of what those facts mean. This is the second layer of interpretation and by far the most important.
Every historian or reporter must go through these two steps. The honest ones try to step outside their own preferences and beliefs when doing so, but nobody can truly succeed at that.
So the difference between honest and dishonest historians and reporters is that the honest ones are honest with themselves and their readers as to what their preferences and beliefs are, they don’t attempt to pass their constructed explanation off as “fully objective,” something that is quite impossible for mere humans to achieve.
Yup. Whatever happened to who, what, where, when and how?