8/ Hard to overstate how seductive "just do your job" is. It combines the myth of taciturn manliness (Gary Cooper) with the appeal of the humble public servant (I'm no hero, ma'am, just doin' my job.) Very difficult to argue against that. Again: "We’re not at war; we’re at work."
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Gandhi and Martin Luther King might suggest the answer is no. There are different forms of force.
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I don't see anything beating "we’re not at war; we’re at work" in the minds of American journalists responsible for political coverage. That is where they are, and that is where they are going to remain.
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Jay, Much of what you say seems right to me, especially about what the President is doing. But you can’t beat something (Marty’s formulation) with nothing, so the search for a perhaps necessary gloss on this continues.
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Thanks, Dick. I will keep at it. But as I said, "we’re not at war; we’re at work" is where newsroom opinion rests and I do not see that changing. It is perfectly calibrated.
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Jay -
@zephoria's "The Messy Fourth Estate" from June showed up on my feed yesterday that goes at this (e.g., "your worldview is being weaponized") but also has a critique embedded in it - and suggests some ways out of the box. Wondering what you think?https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-messy-fourth-estate-a42c1586b657 … -
I read it when it came out, and shared it. I think it's very strong critique, as usual from dana.
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"Media editors, journalists, and managers don’t want to be at war. Almost no one wants to be. Yet if you are at war, and you deny its reality, you can’t protect yourself. That’s the danger in which journalism finds itself now."https://conatusnews.com/mainstream-media-political-propaganda …
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The Washington Post’s reporting toppled Nixon. They weren’t at war—they were doing their jobs. Good, solid journalism can change the world.
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As I said, ‘we’re not at war, we’re at work...just do the job’ captures what American journalists think on these questions.
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I yam what I yam, I guess.
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Millions of Jews wrestled with that exact same question of how to oppose Hitler during the Nazi-era, and the pacifists are mostly gone. Please visit the
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Gandhi (a pacifist) WON, but not just b/c he said British rule must stop. He also pointed to a new & better way things could be. If only journalists saw this fight as Gandhi did... and as
#MLKJr &#BuckminsterFuller did.#ReportOnTheHelpers#MakeTrumpsWorldObsolete@TheKingCenterpic.twitter.com/reP09fVaRN
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Seems like Popper's Paradox of tolerance would apply here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance … The press' tolerance for opposing points of view holds, as long as the opposing view is not anti-free press. A free press cannot condone an anti-free press viewpoint sustainably.
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Hi Brain, maybe if CNN didn’t remove relevant facts like you did on the radical Muslim compound in NewMexico to hide the truth of the situation people would view your network as a trusted news source. Add a network who held a town hall on school shootings doesn’t have have their
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lead story every hour be on the compound in New Mexico. What makes it even worse is we all know if this was a White Supremacist compound it be lead story for over a weak but since it’s a radical Muslim compound you brush it over as no big deal.
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Ask Gandhi.
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Seriously. What the hell is
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