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.

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

[lightningdance]

100% agree, I posted an article similar to this.

Its  scary  that  mamia, crkkey,getup, matilda are driving opinion  even  if it  is of the left, this type of media are no  more than ideology driven.

 I put the Project and Q&A in the same category.

Thanks for posting.

[cherry*135]

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.

[cherry*135]

You quite often start threads based on opinion pieces, icy.

I can't open the link to the article. I have refreshed the screen but still get this. Could be just my problem.

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[karliandjacko]

the link goes back to the boards, not to an external link.  

[karliandjacko]

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

 Yes, I agree with that comment. News should not be biased. I find it annoying when news readers add their own adjectives to describe the event or person they're reporting about.  There is a place for opinion in media reporting as well and I don't think that's on the news.  The Project is a good example of opinions about the news.  They have a laugh, invite comment from all sides of the debate and viewer comment which is what ,multi media is all about.

[karliandjacko]

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

[cherry*135]

Some people want this country to be like Burma (media under strict censorship and regulation).. no criticisms of the current Govt, shut down TV channels, newspapers etc that are seen as having a leftie bias.. how extreme.

[***super_nova***]

When watching news you should not be able to guess how the commentator votes.  But journalists should be able to write opinion pieces provided they are within guidelines - like not promoting hatred etc.

[karliandjacko]

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@am*3 wrote:

Some people want this country to be like Burma (media under strict censorship and regulation).. no criticisms of the current Govt, shut down TV channels, newspapers etc that are seen as having a leftie bias.. how extreme.

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I don't get all the whinging about the fictional leftie bias. Most of the time the ABC is not biased to any side. When people have done research on that issue it turns out there is no left or labor bias at all.  I've seen people say QandA is left biased when the majority of guests are exLibs and IPA members.   They sure as hell were not biased in Gillard's favour.  In fact they just repeated the BS fed to them by Newscorpse most of the time.

[cherry*135]

Yes, ridiculous. I guess with online blogs, social media etc, they just can't handle opposing opinions and want them shut down, which is not going to happen in a country like Australia.