DIA: Do you think the media should strive for objectivity in its reporting?
Mr Froomkin: No. Journalists should strive for accuracy, and fairness. Objectivity is impossible, and is too often confused with balance. And the problem with balance is that we are not living in a balanced time. For instance, is it patently obvious that at this point in our history, the leading luminaries on one side of the American political spectrum are considerably less tethered to reality than those on the other side. Madly trying to split the difference, as so many of my mainstream-media colleagues feel impelled to do, does a disservice to the concept of the truth.
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Some thoughts on blowback
2 days ago
A fucking men to that. I'm really tired of the whole "one side says this but the other side says that" philosophy of journalism. When one side says that health reform legislation will bend the cost curve over time and the other side says that bending the cost curve means establishing death panels to kill old people, you'd think that the so-called pros would be able to tell that these two views are not on equal footing. But you'd be wrong.
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