Posted on 08/20/2016 2:28:21 PM PDT by Lorianne
The new excuse for the U.S. mainstream media to violate its professional principles of objectivity and balance in covering this presidential race is that its all Donald Trumps fault, or as The New York Times put it, Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism.
But that is just the latest dodge for American journalists who dont really believe in the principle of evenhandedness. Many have been slanting their coverage for as long as I can remember in my nearly four decades covering news in Washington.
Indeed, bias and outright dishonesty have long been the norm for major American news outlets, especially in the fabrication of foreign monsters around the world for the U.S. military to seek out and destroy.
The truth is that at virtually every spin of Americas revolving wheel of enemies, The New York Times could write a similar headline blaming the foreign leaders, just as the newspaper did Trump: Putin Tests the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism or Bashar al-Assad or Saddam Hussein or any other designated villain du jour.
In the Times framing of the problem, its not the journalists who have a responsibility to maintain the norms of objectivity; it is Trump or some foreign villain who tests the norms. The journalists are the victims here, with their high standards being put under unfair pressure.
But I cant remember a time when major U.S. news outlets approached a foreign policy issue with anything approaching objectivity or balance. With very few exceptions, the pattern is to fall in line behind the U.S. foreign policy establishments propaganda.
Indeed, when some of us have tried to apply objective or even-handed standards to foreign controversies, we faced resistance and punishment from our own news organizations.
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If you wish to go to a top journalism achhol, like Columbia, the your essay MUST include the phrases “I want to make the world a better place,” and “I will speak truth to power,” but not mention that the governments are the power and make the world worse.
Nice spell check.....school. Sorry.
The Leftist Media Complex is way beyond mere ‘bias’, they are the Democrats.
Pravda had more objectivity than the Ministry of Propaganda
Trump could make this all go away by announcing 1 thing which he will never do and that 1 thing is to back off of E-Verify. Corporate America and many in Congress support cheap labor.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
The legal Achilles Heel of the wire services is that they are patently conspiracies in restraint of trade, and in the 21st Century, its mission - the conservation of expensive long-distance transmission bandwidth in disseminating the news - is obsolete. Any Tom, Dick, and Jim Robinson can afford the bandwidth now. And therefore the AP, which was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1945, is not now, as it was then, inherently too big to fail. Of course, without Scalia . . .
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