Newsbusters By Tim Graham
News consumer, beware: journalists are trying to redefine what “objective” means. They think objectivity is for losers who don’t have the guts to stand up for “the right side of history.”
Take CNN, which brands itself as an anti-Trump outfit. In an interview with CNN host Dana Bash for Modern Luxury magazine, writer Michael McCarthy summarized: “Where once the journalistic mandate was often framed as presenting opposing viewpoints and allowing the audience to decide, Bash argues that such symmetry no longer suffices.”
Forget “symmetry.” Imbalance is in.
Bash argued that objective reporting now means “objectively” challenging the lies of public officials – and guess which side apparently does all the lying. “Objective reporting doesn’t mean just giving all sides of the issue,” Bash said. “Objective reporting now, rightly so, means explaining what somebody says when it’s false or when it’s not right or when it’s misleading.”
“It’s a subtle but critical distinction,” McCarthy claimed. No, it’s a very unsubtle redefinition of the word.
Consider Bash’s softball interview with Kamala Harris in 2024. This is how she approached Kamala lying about President Biden’s mental decline in office. “Right after the debate, you insisted that President Biden is extraordinarily strong. Given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the American people?” It’s not “holding government accountable” to just say “no regrets?”
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