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Jonathan Turley: “Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call for the End of Objective Journalism

re: Jonathan Turley

Now that’s an oxymoron.

The veil is off—journalism is a moldering corpse in all the major “news” outlets.

Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.

Jonathan Turley: “Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call for the End of Objective Journalism

2023-02-01, by Jonathan Turley

We previously discussed the movement in journalism schools to get rid of principles of objectivity in journalism. Advocacy journalism is the new touchstone in the media even as polls show that trust in the media is plummeting. Now, former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward have released the results of their interviews with over 75 media leaders and concluded that objectivity is now considered reactionary and even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle said it plainly: “Objectivity has got to go.” 

Notably, while Bob Woodword and others have finally admitted that the Russian collusion coverage lacked objectivity and resulted in false reporting, media figures are pushing even harder against objectivity as a core value in journalism.

We have been discussing the rise of advocacy journalism and the rejection of objectivity in journalism schools. Writerseditorscommentators, and academics have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including President-elect Joe Biden and his key advisers. This movement includes academics rejecting the very concept of objectivity in journalism in favor of open advocacy.

Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll decried how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being “weaponized” to protect disinformation. In an interview with The Stanford Daily, Stanford journalism professor, Ted Glasser, insisted that journalism needed to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.” He rejected the notion that journalism is based on objectivity and said that he views “journalists as activists because journalism at its best — and indeed history at its best — is all about morality.”  Thus, “Journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity.”

Lauren Wolfe, the fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her pro-Biden tweet but published a piece titled I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.” 

Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones is a leading voice for advocacy journalism.

Indeed, Hannah-Jones has declared “all journalism is activism.” Her 1619 Project has been challenged as deeply flawed and she has a long record as a journalist of intolerance, controversial positions on rioting, and fostering conspiracy theories. Hannah-Jones would later help lead the effort at the Times to get rid of an editor and apologize for publishing a column from Sen. Tom Cotten as inaccurate and inflammatory.

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WIND: tyranny looms when a free press is destroyed, which appears to be largely the case already for many years now; there are exactly zero credible major news outlets remaining. Salvageable? Unlikely, given the woke mind virus and deep state infiltration.

Voices like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and others will have to carry the load. Until the deep state kills them via a tragic accident. Don’t rule it out, that’s how it’s done in most of the world.

A civilization falls when its institutions rot to deeply, like rusty girders. Then everything collapses “unexpectedly”. Real journalism is one of those girders, maybe the most important one, and both COVID and the Trump era showed us just how deeply rotten things are.

Civilization is largely about protecting people from other (bad) people. What these journalists are now calling for is the destruction of civilization by propaganda and coercion, with those daring to speak out crushed economically and marginalized. Which we witnessed over and over during the COVID mass hysteria.

Only children and idiots think “news” has anything to do with reality. Or fail to understand that the Justice System has become the Injustice System all too often, where feral man is set free to wreak havoc. All because of the lies and ommissions of “journalism”, which assigns opinions to the vast bulk of the populace.

This is no random event. The forces of collectivism long ago "captured" government indoctrination camps ("public schools") in a brilliant and slow-but-steady-wins-the-prize campaign starting 50 years ago. The takeover is 99% complete from Kindergarten through graduate school in every field. Those efforts are now bearing their noxious fruit in every aspect of society, as per above. And teacher’s unions are now responsible for 90% of the systemic racism we see today, by denying a good education to children who desparately need it, while simultaneously crippling them intellectually in a way that turns them into feral creatures, unfit to contribute to a civilized society.

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