The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News

Objectivity creates the formula of quoting Establishment specialists or experts within the narrow confines of the power elite who debate policy nuance like medieval theologians. As long as one viewpoint is balanced by another, usually no more than what Sigmund Freud would term “the narcissism of minor difference,” the job of a reporter is deemed complete. But this is more often a way to obscure rather than expose truth.

I’ve been a big fan of Chris Hedges ever since I heard an interview with him on Bob McChesney’s “Media Matters”. (I’ll try and dig up the link and post it later.)

(via Instapaper)