2. Is that hard, and maybe in some ways unrealistic? Sure. But if you hold to the ideal, that makes it easier to strive for it than if you disregard it entirely. Principles are a constraint even when they are not perfect - a compass, not a straitjacket.
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3. Now, as an opinion writer for an ideological publication, and by background a lawyer for clients, I think of myself as an advocate, a calling in which fairness is important & objectivity is not pretended. But if you want people to read your work as "THE news," that's your job.
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4. So, if you're campaigning for straight-news reporters to abandon objectivity, you're really campaigning for them to destroy whatever remains of public respect for their role. But you're not doing it because no profession could ask that. Others do.
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5. Finally, it's a sadly common feature of journalism that when people give up on objectivity, they also give up on fairness. And that is the graver sin.
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But conservatives don’t actually want unbiased judges. That’s why you support stacking the court with ideologues. They also don’t support unbiased doctors which is why they pass laws saying doctors can refuse to treat trans patients.
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They don’t want unbiased cops, which is why they oppose significant police reform and racial sensitivity training. And they don’t want unbiased journalists, which is why they constantly work the refs.
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"fairness is the more crucial value than objectivity"
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trying to decide if this is intentionally hilarious or sad the answer is probably "unintentionally hilarious and exceedingly sad"
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Assuming accuracy in news reporting, objectivity is the more crucial value than fairness. Objectivity is to equality as fairness is to equity.
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Your 5 tweet thread condemning your party's recent comments on the Holocaust must be coming out later this afternoon.https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1396081339468820480?s=19 …
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