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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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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The idea that you believe fairness is divorced from objective truth is troubling.
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Your capacity for lacking any self-awareness whatsoever never fails to amaze. You wrote these words within the last week. But “...fairness is important...”?pic.twitter.com/f3aS4JsugO
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