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| The Twilight of Objectivity |
| 2006-04-03 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Erasmus proved that the more learned the academic, the more ignorant. For further proof, I submit 2 of the most learned jackasses ever to pollute Academia: Fred Halliday and Graham Fuller. Fuller claims to speak 16 languages, but that doesn't give him insight into offering solutions other than the West dhimmi up to Islamofascism. Before Martin Kramer took a hard line on the "what threat?" mentality, he wrote this on those 2 clowns: http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/IslamicThreat.htm Paul Johnson and Niall Ferguson openly advocate a return to Imperialism and Colonialism, over those cultures that need to be re-worked by their superiors. They don't get invited to the same Anti-CLASH conventions where John Esposito, Karen Armstrong, Bernard Lewis, Fuller, ad nauseum, etc can be found. |
| Posted by: Listen to Dogs 2006-04-03 04:42 |
| #6 Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-03 19:46 |
| #5 11A5S, yes pre-WW1 all papers were partisan but the news groups such as AP and Rueters were strictly non-partisan in order to sell their stories to as many of those partisan papers as possible. So international news generally was non-partisan. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-04-03 18:58 |
| #4 Someone has advocated the EXPLICIT return of newsmedia to partisian support, like in France, where newspapers are explicitly labelled left and right wing. Lefties seek for, and thrive, in environments with default assumptions, one of which is that the media are impartial. Declaring themselves is like the vampire coming out into the sunlight... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2006-04-03 12:42 |
| #3 ltd ot? oh no. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-04-03 10:49 |
| #2 "Objectivity" was an artifact of the two world wars (the government had a monopoly on all of the lead stories and if the news outlets didn't self-censor, the government would cut off all access) and the fair time doctrine (which died when it became apparent that cable, satellite, etc were providing more than enough bandwidth for everyone to express his opinion). Before WWI all newspapers were partisan. The pendulum has swung back to where it was a century ago. The bi-partisan consensus is dead. Long live rancorous debate. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-04-03 10:33 |
| #1 Listen to Dogs, I think you missed the gist of the article. The sub line was what it was about: "How opinion journalism could change the face of the news." |
| Posted by: tipper 2006-04-03 10:07 |