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Sounds like you’re ignoring more important issues like the train derailment to focus on sports.
by yunwal 4y ago
Sounds like you’re ignoring more important issues like the train derailment to focus on sports.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoYou said there's no objective journalism. What's the score of the Superbowl? What agenda or subjectivity does that carry?
- happytoexplain 4y agoThe statement was made in response to your own claim about journalism, not about the super bowl. Individual statements can obviously be objective. Not all topics worthy of journalistic reporting can be: Anything where we can't know with 100% confidence that we have every fact and that all of our sources are perfect and that we know the whole context and motivations and history. Judgements have to be made. This applies to perhaps the majority of topics - even stories that seem small.
- yunwal 4y agoAnd even when all the facts are obtainable, you have to choose to present some and not others, since it’s not possible to report every true fact in the world. Which facts you find important, interesting, or worthy of publication is heavily influenced by your views.