Being objective and unbiased has always been key to journalism. But is it still true nowadays?

( Three minute read)

I’m There, You’re Not, Let Me Tell You About It.

Granted not everybody views the news at the same time, but surely there is cut off point when an item becomes repetitive.

Journalist is one of those contenstive subjects, lacking impartial and objectiveness. It is far to complicated to tackle in a three minute blog, as it is effected by a host of circumstances, events etc.

True objective has never existed.

Facts need interpretation to have meaning, and interpretation needs a standpoint.

We don’t take the view from nowhere.

Unfortunately, most of the biggest news outlets in the world were born before the digital era, and that means they’re still today openly unbalanced in favour of a specific ideology.

In this fragile context, journalism needs to adapt in order to survive and preserve its societal relevance.

There are many possibility reasons for the public’s declining trust in journalism — it’s falling for pretty much everyone but it’s plausible that one of them is the difference in that way journalists and audiences think of “objectivity.

Determining news relative positions in a news bulletin with an asshole like the foul mouthed Donald Trump can be easy.

These aspects inevitably render journalism a political institution whose impacts are not neutral with respect to various societal interests.

The search for recovering journalism’s public legitimacy must begin by coming to terms with this reality.

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When the BBC interviews someone well-informed, they should find someone well-informed and intelligent to do it and stop mundane questioning.

Junk news should have a time slot of its own.

With real news that has influence (with verification) setting the agendas.

All human comments appreciated. All like clicks and abuse chucked in the bin.

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