[MindBender26]

If viewers can't expect you to at least try to be "objective," why else watch you?

If reporters can't learn to be "objective" in their 4 years of Journalism school, why go to such a school in the first place?

The notion of "fair" is beyond belief. Hitler undoubtably thought he was "fair" to the Jews and Gypsies.

[1Old Pro]

What a surprise. Jennings, Rather, Brokaw inserting their extremist Left Wing news into all their news stories.

[DOGEY]

Why should he hold others to a standard he doesn't meet.

[dfwgator]

I'm shocked, just shocked.

[tomnbeverly]

Amazing... this is exactly what George Soros wants.. he must be gloating over this right now...

[billhilly]

These "journalists" , like many of our elected "leaders" are elitest snobs. They instinctively feed us "what we need."

[wagglebee]

When will these f*cking idiot leftists understand that, by definition, NEWS must be objective. It is supposed to be a reporting of events that are happening.

When they stop doing this it is no longer news, it is PROPOGANDA and COMMENTARY!

[xkaydet65]

Saying Objective and Fair is playing word games. No one expected Edward R Murrow to be Objective or even Fair when he was describing the Blitz from a London rooftop. You did expect him to be accurate. He did, and so did the BBC, accurately describe Britain's losses and report their statistics of German losses. What we get today from the media is propaganda masquerading as objective reporting. This is as much true of the NY Post as it is of the NY Times and Newsday. We find ourselves in a time warp to two centuries ago where the newspapers clearly stood with Federalists or Republicans

The thing I love about FR is that stories and articles are posted or linked in their original form and commentary follows. That allows a real exercise of critical thinking. Media folk like Jennings cloak themselves in meaningless words like Objective and fair when they are neither. And BTW FR provides an antithesis to his belief that people tailor their news to suit their opinions. We post and read all news and critique it using our knowledge, evidence and viewpoint. I dare say most readers and posters on FR are more conversant with the leftist point of view than most readers of Salon or DU, or ABC.

[Peter Jennings]

The MSM say's that the mistake that Dan Rather and CBS made on The National guard story was that they were sloppy because of over aggressiveness and overzealousness.

The point isn't that they were sloppy, it is that they would never have aggressively gone after a story like this against a Democrat.

[johnny7]

"If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong," Jennings said

TRANSLATION;“Limbaugh and the internet junkies are making us look like chumps. That 'friggin FOXNews is '$hittin in our sandbox! Lets get back the White house and close down the lot of them!”

[WestTexasWend]

"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective," Jennings said.

Outrageous! My old J-school professor must be rolling in his grave. Yes, back then they still taught objectivity and if Dr. Morgan caught a whiff of bias or thought you'd sexed-up a story at the expense of the truth you got an F...no questions asked. He'd almost always lop the last sentence/ graph off a story because that's where the reporter's opinion usually creeps in.

Kerry's got his "nuisance" and now Jennings has got his "notion"...what a couple of elitist twits.

[vrwinger]

I can accept that everyone presenting news has a personal bias. Fine. State it up front and we can all listen to your news story with that information.

"I'm Joe Blow, ABC News. This report is presented through my personal liberal prism. I personally want to see John Kerry elected.

On the campaign trail today...."

[joesnuffy]

Reporters don't have to be fair or objective...

Which means they can be unfair and biased

Meanwhile Jennings' is on a swing through battleground states'

Hey Mr Reporter....you wouldn't be campaigning for Kerry would you?

ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCPUBLICTVRADIO are all for Kerry....then all this advertising should be billed as such a price put on it...taxes paid on it....and Pres Bush demands equal time...

Propaganda isn't news and Jennings like Cronkite Rather Brokaw and all the rest are not reporters they are propagandists...nothing more...

and Marxists propagandists to boot...though their brown shirted ground troop colleagues act more like National Socialists...

It's amazing the Russia and Germany ever fought...they had so much in common
The Third Way resolves all those nasty issues...and coalesces both into one nice fat
Global dogma...

McCarthy was right...we are awash in them....no wonder they hated him so...

[SERKIT]

ABC (Always Believe Communists) needs to become intellectually honest and file as a 527 organization. Jennings "swinging through" battleground states? Please change to "Jennings campaigning for Senator Kerry through the battleground states".

[cake_crumb]

Yeah yeah...and he's dumping mercury in the drinking water, dumping herbicides all the forests and plans to nuke Missouri, too.

[trebb]

"And when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be fair," the anchorman said.

Slanted, but fair - the latest MSM oxymoron...

[cake_crumb]

" 'I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective,' " Jennings said.

Jennings was one of those talking heads who refused to wear a flag lapel pin as a show of solidarity after 9/11/01, because it would ruin his objectivity.

[briant]

"And when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be fair," the anchorman said.

The end is hopefully near. They have been pretending that having 90% Democrats in a newsroom or university administration was of no consequence because they were trained to be objective. Hopefully this is a sign the cat will be officially out of the bag and even the nonpolitical savvy will see they are being manipulated.

[ThomasMore]

have points of view through which they filter their perception of the news.

We can lie if we want...relativism is killing our coun try. Go back to Canada Peter!

[holden]

the way people tailor the way they consume news"

What a whiner!

Isn't it awful that the audience can actually make choices these days about news they consume? Just about any choice one makes will no longer peg the meter to the Left as it did in the MSM heydays!

Too bad, Petah!

HF

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bump/ping for later read.