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Ideological bias does not negate his standing as a journalist. There is no requirement in journalism to be strictly neutral, to have no opinion, to only report
by cmurf 8y ago
Ideological bias does not negate his standing as a journalist. There is no requirement in journalism to be strictly neutral, to have no opinion, to only report facts dispassionately.
His colleagues are journalists, they consider him a journalist, and he's won awards you'd only get if you're a journalist, and his process of information gathering and writing meets the definition of journalism. His style is highly editorialized, but his stories aren't devoid of facts while containing only opinion, and the facts presented aren't often wrong. You can certainly argue from a contrarian perspective that his editorial conclusions are all wrong, but that still wouldn't make him not a journalist.
If someone's primary goal is entertainment, you can call it newsertainment or perhaps comedy.
- harryh 8y agoHe most certainly does not report facts dispassionately. He consistently leaves out important data that runs counter to his narrative and exaggerates data that supports it.
- cyberpunk0 8y agoSo does every other journalist, editor, scientist, and human being... including you.
- anigbrowl 8y agoYes, but he's not a good journalist, he's a polemicist. He omits information that's important for his audience to know in order to understand the issue. Chomsky does the same thing. I broadly agree with his conclusions in this example but I trust Taibbi about as much as any other salesman, ie not at all.