Comments on: A Call For More Fuck-Em-Ups In Journalism http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/11/03/a-call-for-more-fuck-em-ups-in-journalism/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Freddie http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/11/03/a-call-for-more-fuck-em-ups-in-journalism/#comment-17107 Freddie Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:02:24 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/?p=4527#comment-17107 I just wonder if this sort of post is self-defeating. If you know what I mean. I just wonder if this sort of post is self-defeating. If you know what I mean.

]]> By: Spencer Ackerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/11/03/a-call-for-more-fuck-em-ups-in-journalism/#comment-17095 Spencer Ackerman Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:31 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/?p=4527#comment-17095 That's what I'm talking about. It gives me hope reading people like Froomkin write things like that. Thanks. That’s what I’m talking about. It gives me hope reading people like Froomkin write things like that. Thanks.

]]> By: sgwhiteinfla http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/11/03/a-call-for-more-fuck-em-ups-in-journalism/#comment-17094 sgwhiteinfla Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:47:20 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/?p=4527#comment-17094 Someone passed this Froomkin interview along on another blog and now I am passing it along to you and your readers. I think it gets into some of the things you talk about as far as journalism and how things have changed. http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/10/seven_questions_for_dan_froomk.cfm <blockquote>DIA: Do you think the media should strive for objectivity in its reporting? Mr Froomkin: No. Journalists should strive for accuracy, and fairness. Objectivity is impossible, and is too often confused with balance. And the problem with balance is that we are not living in a balanced time. For instance, is it patently obvious that at this point in our history, the leading luminaries on one side of the American political spectrum are considerably less tethered to reality than those on the other side. Madly trying to split the difference, as so many of my mainstream-media colleagues feel impelled to do, does a disservice to the concept of the truth.</blockquote> Someone passed this Froomkin interview along on another blog and now I am passing it along to you and your readers. I think it gets into some of the things you talk about as far as journalism and how things have changed.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/10/seven_questions_for_dan_froomk.cfm

DIA: Do you think the media should strive for objectivity in its reporting?

Mr Froomkin: No. Journalists should strive for accuracy, and fairness. Objectivity is impossible, and is too often confused with balance. And the problem with balance is that we are not living in a balanced time. For instance, is it patently obvious that at this point in our history, the leading luminaries on one side of the American political spectrum are considerably less tethered to reality than those on the other side. Madly trying to split the difference, as so many of my mainstream-media colleagues feel impelled to do, does a disservice to the concept of the truth.

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