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Journalists and their pose of objectivity
'The calm before the stormy' was a New York Times headline - how sniggering and blush making is that and so redolent of the school playground. No doubt your comments contributors will
hurrah this as if it was some Hamlet type apercu.
How journalists stumble in their endeavours to be sapient (wise). There is that pose of objectivity into which journalists habitually, almost mechanically, fall into when they write. The ‘I’ of journalism is a kind of ultra-reliable narrator and impossibly rational and disinterested person, whose relationship to the subject more often than not resembles the relationship of a judge pronouncing sentence on a guilty defendant.
In their overarching yearning for certainty, journalists merely replicate the intolerance and taste for indoctrination that the profess to despise; Trump/deplorables et al. Why not leave things our i.e Trump hatred. this when enacted can be done to great effect
hurrah this as if it was some Hamlet type apercu.
How journalists stumble in their endeavours to be sapient (wise). There is that pose of objectivity into which journalists habitually, almost mechanically, fall into when they write. The ‘I’ of journalism is a kind of ultra-reliable narrator and impossibly rational and disinterested person, whose relationship to the subject more often than not resembles the relationship of a judge pronouncing sentence on a guilty defendant.
In their overarching yearning for certainty, journalists merely replicate the intolerance and taste for indoctrination that the profess to despise; Trump/deplorables et al. Why not leave things our i.e Trump hatred. this when enacted can be done to great effect