FERBRACHE: To Find Truth, Objectivity Must Go? | The Daily Caller

FERBRACHE: To Find Truth, Objectivity Must Go? | The Daily Caller

"Two former media executives recently published the results of interviews with over 75 leaders of media organizations. 

Based on the responses, the authors conclude that adherence to objectivity in journalism is passé.

• Former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward conclude that journalists today “believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading “bothsidesism” in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects...

...The embrace of “The Fourth Estate” activism at the expense of balance and neutrality, trust is precisely what has been lost. 

According to Gallup, trust in the media is at a record low, with 38% of Americans having no trust at all...