Friday, February 20, 2009
Objective Cheer Leading
Like most college schools of education, journalism schools have been infected for quite some time now with the state-worshiping postmodern virus.
Students are told that since genuine objectivity can never really be attained anyway (a hat tip to Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, etc), one should direct instruction or news reporting to the higher goals of unadulterated partisanship (i.e. Push left wing political values and deride conservative ones).
The faceless writers of common wire services like Reuters and Associated Press have become absurd in recent years -- initially motivated by a pandemic of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
One can find blatant editorializing and downright distortion in the most mundane "news" articles on any given day.
Here's a mild one I found yesterday from AP:
(Headline):
Republicans Poised to Leap on Spending Abuses
(Subheading):
Party prepares to pounce on wasteful spending in the $787 billion stimulus package as they refocus their criticisms of a measure whose success could hurt their 2010 election prospects (emphasis mine).
I realize that this is a very subtle and barely noticeable example of bias – but that's the point. It would no doubt be seen as biased by anyone left of center if the sub-heading had stated; "...whose failure could help their 2010 election prospects [!]."
An attempt at objective reporting could easily report the issue minus a sub-heading that clearly depicts the so-called "stimulus" in a positive or negative light or those who oppose it in a postive or negative light.
This is admittedly a minor example of AP's non-stop pathetic proselytizing for the Democrat party and leftist politics in general.
I once wrote that, even though the executive and legislative branches of government were run by Republicans; that news media, education, and entertainment were dominated by the left. Now that's changed and the executive and legislative branches of government are in lockstep with their left-wing comrades of state adoration – they've even got a cult of personality going (Obama as savior).
We're screwed...'should make a lot of spoiled socialist brats happy.
