No-one in NZ could honestly describe the TVNZ/Newshub/RNZ/NZ Herald/Stuffer government-subsidized cartel ‘objective’ and they all have the same neo-Marxist far left agenda which they relentlessly push with scant effort to be accurate, let alone balanced. That wouldn’t matter so much if there was a channel that attempts to balance their propaganda such as SkyNews in Australia, GB News in Britain and Fox News in America, but there is none in Jacindaland.
from Summit News
Top news outlets have openly announced that they’re abandoning “objectivity” because it’s a racist relic of “white newsrooms”.
No, this isn’t a Babylon Bee story.
The decision arose from a series of interviews conducted by former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward.
“The media figures argued that journalists should include their own beliefs, biases, and experiences to convey truth, and that journalistic objectivity was either unrealistic or undesirable,” reports the Daily Caller.
Downie Jr. argued that objectivity distorts the news because the standard “was dictated over decades by male editors in predominantly White newsrooms and reinforced their own view of the world.”
Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, put it even more explicitly asserting, “objectivity has got to go.”
So there you have it.
“Diversity” is hostile to objectivity (truth) and for diversity to win, the truth must be abolished in favor of pushing narratives that benefit so-called minority groups (which are now endorsed and empowered by every major institution in America).
Downie Jr. insisted that covering both sides of a story, particularly one “about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects,” prevents individuals who belong to such groups “pursuing truth in their work.”
Kathleen Carroll, former executive editor at the Associated Press asserted that objectivity was a standard set by “White, educated, and fairly wealthy” people and should therefore be abolished.
Chris Menahan pointed out one such example of how journalists dispensing with objectivity actually serves to bury the truth.
The New York Times reported the claim of a 12-year-old girl being racially bullied by referring to her as “Black” and her bullies as “White”.
After it emerged that the claims had been totally invented and the story was a lie, they removed both “Black” and “White” from subsequent reporting of the story.
Only white men are capable of being objective. Thanks a lot.
Wow how presumptuous and arrogant of them. But it’s been going on for years in MSM, they left objectivity way behind, along with morals and ethics, so why wait until now to announce it?
What is strange is that advertisers still advertise on these rubbish stations. Personalty as soon as the aoertearoa sounds off, its a change of channel.
So true. The corrupt gabal msm is nothing more than the megaphone spouting the propaganda bullshite of this fascist communist government. I stopped watching/listening to msm in NZ a couple of years back as it is so barstadised and fake. So over the “woke ” brigade. We need to restore democracy in NZ. Sadly Luxon is heading in the same direction as Labour, my hope is fading
We will be telling him that, although whether he will listen remains to be seen.
Only the2 fools will keep advertising with them