Isn't It Time to Do Analysis?

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CNN's John Defterios takes aim at the idea of journalistic objectivity. He says it requires journalists to appear as if they're much dumber and more innocent than they actually are. "To do journalism is to decide and decide and decide, which means, as you say, to do analysis," he writes.

How well do the news media serve us as citizens, and what role does the notion of “objective,” or “neutral,” journalism play in the failings of American democracy?

Story reported by Lewis Raven Wallace, with host/producer John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with David Mindich, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Kevin Young.

The series editor is Loretta Williams. *The View from Somewhere *editor: Ramona Martinez. Music by Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.