Once Upon a Time an Objective Said…
By Nayelis Vargas
In response to this idea, I have to say that agree. The role that journalists play in the news is simply that of a researcher and an informant. Although there are times when journalists end up being non-objective within their writing, it isn’t because there are malicious purposes behind what we say. But sometimes because of the fact that the things we report on are heavy subjects that we also want to express our feelings on and its hard not to do so. But overall, the way in which every reader interprets their news is different being that we are after all a heterogeneous set of people with a different set of beliefs and understanding of our views on the world.
This is an accurate example of non-objective writing highlighted by the author up above. Why? Because regardless of the news publication and their purposes for doing that, they are in essence going against the goal of being as unbiased and as fair as possible. The titles of the articles alone indicate that there is some sort of preference or bias that will be represented within the article. And if that isn’t obvious, think about the fact that we are the writers of every story and the titles we give our pieces are representative of what we believe.
The article tagged by this fellow tweeter isn’t objective at all. That much is agreed. But I think that in this case we can relax a little bit being that its an informative article yes, but it also looks a bit more laid back and more like an opinion piece. In which case readers have to understand that we journalists don’t always HAVE to be objective. Again it also goes back to how important it is towards the news and how much it will affect other readers.
Despite some of what I have stated above, I do have to acknowledge that sometimes what we consider mostly objective news, does end up spewing a bit of bias in some of what is said. And how can that be avoided when again journalists do work to write about things that are affecting our communities, countries, society. Sometimes it just cannot be avoided, and sometimes it just isn’t done out of conscious. Journalists try to state public opinion and back them with facts for the most part.
On this tweet I have to definitely agree, although I don’t like the phrasing used as much. But this person is in fact right in their sentiment. I’m not saying that we can’t have opinions, or beliefs or even ideologies that go against what news publications we work for. Because at the end of it all we are still people, with feelings and thoughts of our own. But it does make the truths and the news we try to tell our audiences hard to believe if we are going against the core majority beliefs and set of values they care about. And it also makes what we as journalist have to say harder to respect and understand, especially when it comes to sensitive topics such as politics.
