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THREAD: It is journalistically unethical to use the power of your position to press other journalists not to criticize proven-to-be-false reporting BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT powerful journalists feelings. 1/7 http://shorturl.at/nqBN8
This takes on extra layers when that reporting reinforces a dangerous orientalist narrative about “brown terror” (at the same time the very real issue of white supremacist homegrown terror was exploding as the clear real threat). 2/7
(all this while not disclosing in your professional coverage of the fallout your compromising personal relationships with the ppl who worked on the show. The ethical failure of the initial reporting is doubled down on in reporting on that ethical failure.) 3/7
In both cases we see how power > truth, revealing journalists who care more about the "feelings" of the people who control the narratives than the actual facts and the damage their bad reporting did - the damage their “star” producer did to many women...4/7
Protecting your own power above the truth, when that power is wrapped up in harmful racist narratives and sexist abusive actions, gets at the heart of the systemic problems with journalism. 5/7
Where was the concern for the “feelings” of ME journalists critiquing the orientalist narratives embedded in your reporting? Where is the concern for the "feelings" of women who were hurt, professionally and personally, by the lead producer on this project? 6/7
And all this under a cloak of bullshit objectivity when really the bias is clear: white-centered, empire-centered, cis-male-centered, self-centered power #powerbias. 7/7
