“What Is Truth?”
The American Mind
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Is the Concept of Journalistic Objectivity a Distortion of Reality?
Leonard Downey, Jr., a former executive editor of The Washington Post and a professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Germanism and Mass Communication. He argued that the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality. They point out that the standard was dictated over decades by male editors. In predominantly white newsrooms,. they believed that pursuing objectivity can lead false balance or misleading both sidesism.
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