Does jJournalism Still Require Impartiality?

[icyfroth]

If you think of the names that have created the biggest buzz in the media world in the past few years – blogger/journalist Glenn Greenwald, data guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, Julian Assange of Wikileaks, and now the increasingly popular lo-fi documentary makers at Vice News – they have one thing in common.

These are story-tellers for a digital age that come less from the tradition of straight, impartial news gathering and instead embrace a new style of journalism which favours transparency, strong analysis, opinion, a subjective standpoint, and at times, flat-out advocacy for one side of a debate.

But journalists must still tread with caution here. Transparency alone is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Tom Kent of Associated Press has wisely warned against discarding impartiality as “easy roadkill in the rush to new journalism techniques”. Transparency must still be coupled with the hallmarks of solid journalism: checking facts, attributing accurately, uncovering new information, and exposing falsehoods.

Entire Article Here

 I enjoy reading an opinion piece but I prefer my news unbiased.

[karliandjacko]

A ;lot of the new news sites are the creations of journalists and are not biased for or against any side. They're just started by people who are frustrated and/or angry about he decline in the msm news standards.

[cherry*135]

They're just started by people who are frustrated and/or angry about he decline in the msm news standards.

It is good that they have the opportunity to do that.

[the_great_she_elephant]

I don't think there has ever been a "Golden Age" when journalism was completely unbiased and  impartial.Newspapers have always - to some exrent - reflected the political bias of their owners. I did a journalism unit in my English course and as part of one exercise we were shown two accounts of a protest march in London, during the miners strike of 1984, which ended in a confrontation with the police and a few injuries on both sides

I can't now remember which papers the articles came from, but one was right wing and one was left wing (that was the purpose of the exercise) and though they both gave basically the same information they were so diametrically opposed to each other in tone that you would hardly have known they were covering the same event..

[cherry*135]

The Sydney Morning Herald claims to be INDEPENDENT. ALWAYS. ( thats not what some on here call it though ).

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

If you think of the names that have created the biggest buzz in the media world in the past few years – blogger/journalist Glenn Greenwald, data guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, Julian Assange of Wikileaks, and now the increasingly popular lo-fi documentary makers at Vice News – they have one thing in common.

These are story-tellers for a digital age that come less from the tradition of straight, impartial news gathering and instead embrace a new style of journalism which favours transparency, strong analysis, opinion, a subjective standpoint, and at times, flat-out advocacy for one side of a debate.

But journalists must still tread with caution here. Transparency alone is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Tom Kent of Associated Press has wisely warned against discarding impartiality as “easy roadkill in the rush to new journalism techniques”. Transparency must still be coupled with the hallmarks of solid journalism: checking facts, attributing accurately, uncovering new information, and exposing falsehoods.

Entire Article Here

 I enjoy reading an opinion piece but I prefer my news unbiased.

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That link again sorry 'bout the other one don't know what happened there:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/05/does-journalism-still-require-impartiality?CMP=...

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

icy, you seem to have been hot on the trail of spelling/grammar/typo's this week. so I would like to help you find another one, 

jjj JJ jJ  Jj j  jJ  .................Journalism

Yes, journalism (mainstream media) does still require impartiality.

There is a place for independent blogs and newspapers as well. Be a bad world if opinions were suppressed that didn't suit the Government of the day.

One person might like to read Mamamia blog and New Matilda, another might  want toread Bolt or Pickering... free choice.

Neither of these people has to read blogs.opinion pieces in indepedent news they don't approve of.

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Yes thank you Am. I did try to go back and correct, because I know your bias toward spelling and grammar mistakes. Sadly, as you know, once there's a mistake in the title, there's no saving it.

[karliandjacko]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

icy, you seem to have been hot on the trail of spelling/grammar/typo's this week. so I would like to help you find another one, 

jjj JJ jJ  Jj j  jJ  .................Journalism

Yes, journalism (mainstream media) does still require impartiality.

There is a place for independent blogs and newspapers as well. Be a bad world if opinions were suppressed that didn't suit the Government of the day.

One person might like to read Mamamia blog and New Matilda, another might  want toread Bolt or Pickering... free choice.

Neither of these people has to read blogs.opinion pieces in indepedent news they don't approve of.

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Yes thank you Am. I did try to go back and correct, because I know your bias toward spelling and grammar mistakes. Sadly, as you know, once there's a mistake in the title, there's no saving it.

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Then, as if by magic, it corrects itself to prove that statement wrong  😄

[icyfroth]

Pretty cool, the way it does that, isn't it? I wish it would change itself in the thread title as well.

[lightningdance]

News readers editorialising is now rife when once the news was read and they kept their mouths shut about their bias.

It's vitally unimportant news is straight up, factual and not an opinion of the presenter, any talking head can do that. Channel 10 is the worst in that area. Bonji comes on and it's biased to the max..

What I notice in the midday ABC  news when I am around to watch it is they have a news article then they bring in a "talking head" to push their agenda, sometimes this can go on as long as 12 minutes.

That's not news that social comment.

[cherry*135]

The Daily Telegraph publishes very little 'real' news, I have noticed that.