Ana the Ist
Aggressively serene!
"Journalistic Objectivity" was a short-lived phenomenon of the immediate post-WWII era.
There was no such concept as "journalistic objectivity" prior to WWII, and everyone knew you had to read multiple newspapers with different viewpoints to get an accurate picture of the world.
Western journalists after WWII had been shell-shocked by the disastrous propaganda of government-controlled press in Germany and the USSR, and people like Edward Murrow championed the concept of objective journalism in the post-war period.
The concept only survived for about as long as Murrow himself...the late 60s.
Sadly...
The idea of ethical reporting doesn't seem so bad. I think it's funny that when they're pressured to give the names of their sources they suddenly have a high level of "journalistic integrity" and to even ask such a thing is taken as a serious affront to their professionalism.
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