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I find it odd talking about objectivity in journalism without addressing the issue of narratives that create facts rather than facts creating a narrative. When
by belorn 6y ago
I find it odd talking about objectivity in journalism without addressing the issue of narratives that create facts rather than facts creating a narrative. When a narrative is allowed to create facts what usually happens are lies which represent bias of the author and publication (which is supposed to fact check).
The article talk both about alternative facts and value loaded language, but outside of intended bias where news paper are directly involved with a political party, narrative generated facts are likely the culprit for most alternative facts.
Looking at old news papers I think I see much less of narrative designed articles. It might still be biased for all I know, but they seems to be less about trying to tell me a coherent narrative that will draw me in and more about writing up what happened and who said what. The stories seems to generally lack narrative structure, and maybe that allows the author to avoid falling into the trap of filling in facts which does not exist.