NARROWCASTING. The Fairness Doctrine. A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a...frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the Government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount. — U.S. Supreme Court, upholding the constitutionality of the Fairness Doctrine in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Media Bias from Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices.
Martha Raddatz and the faux objectivity of journalists. Numerous commentators (including me) were complimentary of the performance of Martha Raddatz as the moderator of Wednesday night's vice-presidential debate.
She was assertive, asked mostly substantive questions, and covered substantial ground in 90 minutes. That's all true enough, but the questions she asked reveal something significant about American journalism in general and especially its pretense of objectivity. For establishment journalists like Raddatz, "objectivity" is the holy grail. The Myth of Objectivity in Journalism. By This page has been accessed since 29 May 1996.
TRUTH AND OBJECTIVITY IN JOURNALISM. Journalistic objectivity: official sources. Screening for bias. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting angers critics with conservative programming. From the Summer 2005 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 36. By Tom Sullivan Not wanting a world without Big Bird or Clifford the Big Red Dog, congressional leaders this summer restored threatened funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Still lingering are questions about whether CPB is wielding funding power to interfere with the Public Broadcasting Service's public affairs programming. The Voice of God Is Dead It's past time for news outlets to lose the rigid, formulaic approach to newswriting.
But figuring out the boundaries can be tricky. Wed., April 4, 2012. By Jena Heath Jena Heath (jenaheath@gmail.com) spent 17 years as a newspaper reporter and editor. In 2008, she joined the faculty at St. Edward’s University in Austin, where she is an assistant professor of English Writing and Rhetoric-Journalism and faculty adviser to the student newspaper Long ago, a legendary professor terrorized my classmates and me until we could write a news story as it was meant to be written-supremely detached in tone and shaped into something called the inverted pyramid.
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CT at SPJ’s National Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Juan Williams Case Confuses Objectivity with Fairness on Tendentious Television. When Spiro Agnew was compelled to resign the vice presidency after pleading no contest to tax evasion charges, I made the mistake of accepting an invitation to appear on David Susskind’s televised talk show. It was, I naively thought, an opportunity to discuss in detail how that complicated politician had gotten in trouble accepting cash and groceries while governor of Maryland and as vice president. But the 1973 Susskind program quickly devolved into a clash of loud opinions among William Rusher, Roy Cohn, Pete Hamill, Jules Witcover and Frank Van Der Linden, as I sat mostly mute.
During a commercial break, a producer came to me and said, “Get in there and mix it up.” I did not, and never again accepted an invitation to appear on the increasingly tendentious telecasts that masquerade as news analysis. Standing for journalism, strengthening democracy. American Journalism Review. American Journalism Review. Society of Professional Journalists. The Importance of Objectivity in Journalism. And Now a Word from the Other Side: As a journalist trained in action rather than via textbooks, I learned very early to consider viewpoints other than my own when composing articles for publication.
I recently came across a headline accusing Democrats of "highjacking democracy" through election corruption. Well, you remember how the late ACORN lobbyists were "caught in the act" of registering hardly enough Mickey Mouses to change election results anywhere, least of all Disneyland. . . . However, I have it from a distinguished and esteemed Independent why and how Democrats steal elections beyond those ACORN employees who may have been paid per voter registered. When you're hungry and homeless, Mickey Mouse may help out a bit. According to Jeffrey Carter (in a 10/24/10 blog titled "Chicago Election Judge Training"), a widely published expert on finance and marketing, inter alia, we Democrats steal elections by signing up illegal immigrants and sometimes allowing them to vote twice.
Mr. What is objectivity in journalism? An Argument Why Journalists Should Not Abandon Objectivity. In “Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy,” published by Oxford University Press, Alex S.
Jones, a 1982 Nieman Fellow and director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, describes in its prologue his purpose and intent in writing about the “genuine crisis” in news. “It is not one of press bias, though that is how most people seem to view it,” he contends. “Rather, it is a crisis of diminishing quantity and quality, of morale and sense of mission, of values and leadership.”