> -----Original Message----- > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zulma Aguiar > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 20:44 > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [videoblogging] Josh Wolf is Free > > http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs28294 > > That Yahoo Article is totally bias against journalists who > try to persuade public opinion. In my opinion all > journalists have a BIAS no matter who or what is writing it. > All humans have a specific view to the world that can never > be veiled unless useful information is omitted therefore > preventing democracy. > In Europe people freely express their opinions in Newspapers, > they're often called Commentators and not Journalists. > In the US we have this idea of objectivity which sounds nice > but in the name of objectivity a lot of useful information > gets "NEWSpoken" (See George > Orwell) to us in a top down dummbed down manner.
Objectivity is only a meaningful concept when discussing facts that can be proven. The effect of most journalism is to leave the reader with an impression, not to list provable facts. An exercise I often suggest is to go through a newspaper article and cross out sentences that are not even capable of being proven. You won't be left with very much! So by "objective" journalists really mean "uncontroversial". Furthermore, as I understand it, the salient point in this case is not the distinction between journalism and activism, but the state's rights issue of the federal government claiming interest in a local case because the police cars in question were purchased with funding tainted by the inclusion of a little federal money. Thus can the federal government claim practically unlimited jurisdiction, rather far beyond the role envisioned by the founders.
