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Simply one of the best, most rigorous and most insightful threads on this topic you will ever encounter. I’ve struggled for years to find the right ways to express much of this and Wes absolutely, and quite typically, nails it. https://twitter.com/wesleylowery/status/1353411326626983936
His “objectivity of process” point ought to be taught in newsrooms and institutionalized. The most important thing in journalism, the thing that distinguishes good journalism from bad journalism is not objectivity, form, subject matter or even perspective. It is *rigor.*
Rigor truly does exist independently of the politics/agenda of the journalist/institution. It is agnostic to whether you are left, liberal, centrist, conservative, right etc. That is what MSM obsessions w/objectivity aim for but miss & by missing distort the purpose of journalism
The expectation of Individual Objectivity is yet another unfortunate vestige of a specific period of American history, in particular the post-WWII years, rather than being a law of the profession. It’s just more boomer bullshit supporting an exclusionary consensus. Just say no.
Last thing. It turns out his thread was in response to a NYT editor getting fired. I’ve been adjusting to life as parent of a newborn & a 5-year old & am at best peripherally aware of its bare outlines. I just saw the thread & it summed up some thoughts I had struggled to express
