"Moral clarity would insist that politicians who traffic in racist stereotypes and tropes-however cleverly-be labeled such with clear language and unburied evidence," Lowery writes.
Newsrooms "Are really struggling to coverin a way that appears to be nonpartisan a kind of political landscape where one political party in many ways has gone rogue and is not following the rules," the Times' Pulitzer-Prize-winning Nikole Hannah-Jones said on CNN's Reliable Sources after the Cotton flap, in which she was a driving figure.
The institutional stuff you read, watch, and listen to will increasingly be shaped by people whose moral warning systems are on ever-higher alert to make sure valued "Platforms" remain unsullied-and unmanipulated-by barbarians.
In replacing their decidedly strawman version of the "Objectivity" ideal with a more courageous "Moral clarity," journalists are trading the unattainable for the unknowable, and consciously elevating narrative "Truths" over verified facts.
A classic pitfall of such simplistic thinking, widely unremembered now on the journalistic left, is the presumption that a proposal born in moral virtue will retain its luster after coming in contact with the real world.
"That misunderstanding is the idea that if we adopt subjectivity to replace a misunderstood concept of objectivity, we will have magically arrived at truth-that anything I am passionate about and believe deeply is a kind of real truth.If invites people to think that simply opining is some kind of truer or more moral form of reporting, they would be wrong and the effect would be tragic. If journalists replace a flawed understanding of objectivity by taking refuge in subjectivity and think their opinions have more moral integrity than genuine inquiry, journalism will be lost."
The emerging new establishment, busy overhauling a newsroom near you, is about to discover just how popular their interpretation of moral clarity is.
Newsrooms "Are really struggling to coverin a way that appears to be nonpartisan a kind of political landscape where one political party in many ways has gone rogue and is not following the rules," the Times' Pulitzer-Prize-winning Nikole Hannah-Jones said on CNN's Reliable Sources after the Cotton flap, in which she was a driving figure.
The institutional stuff you read, watch, and listen to will increasingly be shaped by people whose moral warning systems are on ever-higher alert to make sure valued "Platforms" remain unsullied-and unmanipulated-by barbarians.
In replacing their decidedly strawman version of the "Objectivity" ideal with a more courageous "Moral clarity," journalists are trading the unattainable for the unknowable, and consciously elevating narrative "Truths" over verified facts.
A classic pitfall of such simplistic thinking, widely unremembered now on the journalistic left, is the presumption that a proposal born in moral virtue will retain its luster after coming in contact with the real world.
"That misunderstanding is the idea that if we adopt subjectivity to replace a misunderstood concept of objectivity, we will have magically arrived at truth-that anything I am passionate about and believe deeply is a kind of real truth.If invites people to think that simply opining is some kind of truer or more moral form of reporting, they would be wrong and the effect would be tragic. If journalists replace a flawed understanding of objectivity by taking refuge in subjectivity and think their opinions have more moral integrity than genuine inquiry, journalism will be lost."
The emerging new establishment, busy overhauling a newsroom near you, is about to discover just how popular their interpretation of moral clarity is.
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