1. While I agree that fairness is the more crucial value than objectivity, there are plenty of professions - judges, cops, doctors - in which we expect people to meet standards that take their personal biases out of the picture.https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1396166198707081219 …
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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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