Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Does US media owe it to Donald Trump to be objective? Yes they do!

Mediatel Newsline ^ | 8/10/2016 | Raymond Snoddy 

American journalists wedded to a tradition of objectivity and impartiality that can seem suffocating to the British sensibility are asking themselves two big questions: How the hell can we be objective about Donald Trump - and should we be?
It is shades of Brexit all over again but on a gigantic scale - the winner of the US Presidential election gets their hands on the American nuclear button.
In the UK referendum campaign many national newspapers were ludicrously biased and became cheerleaders for leaving the European Union in a way that would shock many American journalists.
The BBC faced a more subtle challenge - and had to wrestle with its honourable tradition of impartiality, not always successfully or appropriately in the Brexit case.
But mainstream US journalism, once you get away from the crazy radio talk show hosts, takes objectivity very seriously and you sometimes feel they need at least two on-the-record quotes before they will claim that California is hot in the summer.
But how can you be objective about a man who says he wouldn't necessarily support a NATO ally under attack, who is an admirer of President Putin, who disrespects the family of a dead Muslim military officer and who wants to build a wall across the entire south of the US to keep out Mexicans?
(full story at link, in the next post)
Answer:
You be objective.
A whole huge amount of Americans, strongly agree with Mr. Trump on all of those issues.
Cover the issues.
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