Posted on 04/17/2024 9:30:53 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Katherine Maher, the CEO of National Public Radio, revealed her inner O'Brien when discussing how there is no single objective truth. Her 1984 type blather comes directly from the Neiman Lab at Harvard whose guiding philosophy is something called "Solidarity Journalism" which has become the prevailing philosophy of liberal "journalists." Here are direct quotes about Solidarity Journalism taken directly from the Nieman Lab webisite (link at bottom):
"Solidarity eclipses objectivity as journalism’s dominant ideal."
“Objectivity as an aspirational ideal ends up encouraging journalists to avoid addressing what matters.”
"Aiming for objectivity as a way to resolve uncertainty, though, leads journalism far astray from its public service purpose."
"Striving for objectivity, then, leads journalism to a dead end."
Since Solidarity Journalism has been embraced by most of the mainstream media, it is no surprise that NPR's Katherine Maher and her cohorts have trouble handling the truth to the extent that they now sound straight out of 1984.
PING!
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Report to room 101.
“Objectivity as an aspirational ideal ends up encouraging journalists to avoid addressing what matters.”
And of course they decides what matters!
THEIR “objectivity” based on their naturally-subjective opinion, apparently? Lol.
They actually publish their bias, and proud to do so. “It is all in service the the public good” you do know?
Higher education in anything but engineering and sciences, is a waste of time and money. It is simply indoctrination into “the party”.
spooky
They gave it a shiny new label, ‘Solidarity Journalism’ and added the implied legitimacy and honor with the Harvard brand. We are no longer to think of the mainstream media as the Marketing Department of the socialists, no this is Solidarity Journalism! The work of the media whores is now a mission we are to be humbled by their personal sacrifice.
Remember to bow your head when Rachel Maddow enters the room. She is more valued and important than a doctor saving lives each day. More valuable than scientists, farmers, engineers, CEOs, pastors, professors, Generals, Admirals, etc. combined. She is a SOLIDARITY JOURNALIST!
To the point, polishing this turd doesn’t help. It’s still a turd.
But they can roll it in glitter, and call it "saving democracy."
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