“Objective” news reporting is defined not by a lack of assumptions or biases, but by a refusal to acknowledge those assumptions & biases. The kind of reporting Haberman & other US political journos do rests on a giant superstructure of unexamined presumptions.
Digging those presumptions up, examining & interrogating them, FEELS like “opinion journalism” to people trained in that milieu. But it’s a meaningless dividing line. Why is an unexamined presumption any more “objective” or “neutral” than one consciously chosen?
—David Roberts, in “‘Objective’ news reporting is defined not by a lack of assumptions or biases”
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