Journalistic objectivity is an ideal worth defending. The key point is be aware of your biases; to set out as a reporter with an open mind, prepared to be surprised and to change your mind along the way. Opinion by andrewphil
If you care about journalism, if you consume journalism, and especially — especially — if youan article in the Washington Post by Martin Baron on the importance of objectivity in journalismBaron is a legendary editor. While he was at the helm of the Boston Globe and then the Post those papers won a string of Pulitzer Prizes.
Baron goes back a century to see where the idea of objectivity came from. The 1920s were also a time when, in the words of Walter Lippman, another legendary American journalist, there was “an increasingly angry disillusionment about the press.” Lippman’s solution was to advocate what he called “as impartial an investigation of the facts as is humanly possible.”
“None argue for ignoring or soft-pedalling the revelations of our reporting. They are arguments for exhaustively thorough and open-minded research. And, importantly, “all argue against a madcap rush to social media soapboxes with spur-of-the-moment feelings or irrepressible snark and virtue signalling.”Some younger journalists, and journalists of colour, resented that approach as an attempt to muzzle them.
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