Instead of the old concept of objectivity in reporting, we are moving toward an era of intense subjectivity. News is more and more being sourced from (or at least filtered by) unabashedly biased organizations and individuals. If you follow the US State Departments Twitter feed you know exactly what to expect from them, just as you do when you follow the RSS feed of an organization like the Centre for Research on Globalization. Although this trend is lamented by those caught up in the outdated paradigm of journalistic objectivity, this era at least potentially empowers the individual to arrive at a more thorough understanding of world events by seeing the various arguments presented directly by their sources (and exploring the source documents online), allowing for the creation of a type of intersubjectivity that is more honest than the supposed objectivity of old.
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:00:01 +0000
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