The future of journalistic objectivity
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Timothy McNulty at the Chicago Tribune wrote a great article yesterday on journalistic objectivity.
Objectivity is an oft-debated topic amongst journalists. To what extent is it possible? Where are the lines drawn? Has it diminished in the age of cable TV’s talking heads and the numerous opining bloggers? Or, as McNulty says, does objectivity get reduced to neutrality? “On the one hand this” and “on the other hand this,” without any attempt to truly seek the truth?
One thing that interests me is the potential of objectivity on a macro level - especially given the democratizing potential and decentralized nature of the Web.
