Thank you for your bravery and honesty--I wish Smith College and other institutions that should devote themselves to education would stop propagating divisive, false narratives based on the simplistic formulae of the now-discredited Ibram X. Kendi and the sadistic Robin Di Angelo.
Nov 14, 2023·edited Nov 14, 2023Liked by Jodi Shaw
"the journalist as conduit, collector and conveyor of the multiple disparate voices that inform any issue, in service to the reader, who may then form his/her own conclusion."
I'm almost seventy years old, and I can barely remember when journalism bore some resemblance to that description.
"It’s not that J.’s opinion was wrong, it was that she pretended she had none."
This is one of the big problems I have with mainstream news outlets like NPR, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc.--their pretense of objectivity and denial of bias, a blatant lie. The hated Fox News, on the other hand, openly acknowledges their right-of-center to almost-far-right point of view (depending on the commentator). They don't pretend to be neutral. At the very least, that's an honest starting point the others fail to provide. I have no doubt you would receive a fair hearing on Fox, as opposed to the sabotage job you got from The Sophian.
Lucky J! She’ll get a job at BBC or CNN or NYT no trouble with the key credentials of ideology over truth. But does she know mainstream media is in a death spiral? I think not! Thanks Jodi a great piece thoughtfully laid out as always.
Thank you for your bravery and honesty--I wish Smith College and other institutions that should devote themselves to education would stop propagating divisive, false narratives based on the simplistic formulae of the now-discredited Ibram X. Kendi and the sadistic Robin Di Angelo.
"the journalist as conduit, collector and conveyor of the multiple disparate voices that inform any issue, in service to the reader, who may then form his/her own conclusion."
I'm almost seventy years old, and I can barely remember when journalism bore some resemblance to that description.
"It’s not that J.’s opinion was wrong, it was that she pretended she had none."
This is one of the big problems I have with mainstream news outlets like NPR, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc.--their pretense of objectivity and denial of bias, a blatant lie. The hated Fox News, on the other hand, openly acknowledges their right-of-center to almost-far-right point of view (depending on the commentator). They don't pretend to be neutral. At the very least, that's an honest starting point the others fail to provide. I have no doubt you would receive a fair hearing on Fox, as opposed to the sabotage job you got from The Sophian.
Lucky J! She’ll get a job at BBC or CNN or NYT no trouble with the key credentials of ideology over truth. But does she know mainstream media is in a death spiral? I think not! Thanks Jodi a great piece thoughtfully laid out as always.
Happy Thanksgiving!