20. So in late 19th/early 20th century papers like Globe & NY Times carved niche as voices of objectivity & papers of record.
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21. "Objectivity" also had economic value: secured these papers a loyal readership base & advertisement from upper-middle-class.
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22. The problem with this sort of self-styled "objectivity is that it's amazingly blind to its own class bias & epistemological limits
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23. Respectability and objectivity in journalism more often than not means parroting what the powers that be say.
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24. During early Vietnam war, you got better news from disreputable, ideological I.F. Stone than from objective New York Tmes.
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25. During run-up to Iraq, you got better news about weakness of WMD case from ideological Democracy Now than from objective New York Times
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26. Respectability, for journalists, can be a trap, a way of accepting certain a priori judgements as to who can be trusted & what is news
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27. So, Jesse Brown is disreputable. Agreed. Does that mean what he writes is less valuable than what the Globe prints.
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28. Compare this 2012 Globe profile of Ghomeshi with Brown's journalism. Who do you trust? http://m.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/how-jian-ghomeshi-became-a-radio-superstar/article4415564/?service=mobile …
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29. Are there things
@JesseBrown & I strongly disagree about? Yep. On that recent Ezra Levant story@simonhoupt is exactly right.2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
30. But it's easy to disagree with @JesseBrown because he lays his cards on the table & doesn't use Globe's pose of pseudo-objectivity
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31. Beyond the
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32. Globe and Mail senior management need to some soul searching, because they have a 100 year old business model that is falling apart.
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