Objectivity never actually existed in journalism. That’s right from the source.
https://librivox.org/public-opinion-by-walter-lippmann/
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6456
“Saying that “Objectivity has got to go” is, of course, liberating. You can dispense with the necessities of neutrality and balance. You can cater to your “base” like columnists and opinion writers”
You also can get rid of expensive humans and let AI write your propaganda.
What’s the big deal here? The MSM has been a lying bunch of commie propagandists for decades.
A “biased journalist” is simply a propagandist. It should be a capital felony for a propagandist to pretend to be a journalist. Penalty = death.
The historical reality is that “journalists” have almost always been partisan. The fiction of objectivity is recent onset and a charade from the beginning.
Journalism - Objectivity = Propaganda
The thing is that all newspapers historically have been about the perspective of their printers. Full Stop.What changed about that was: the AP. The AP “wire” is what is now called a “virtual meeting.” The AP responded to questions about its phenomenal, unprecedented, propaganda power by noting that everyone (at that time) knew that the individual members of the AP were all over the place politically. But.
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.” - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations.The continual virtual meetings of all major journalism outlets eventually had to create “the MSM” as we know it.It’s an open-and-shut case.