I just cut to the chase. They’re too wrapped up in their illiberalism and too ignorant to understand your point. Does "gender equity" require government intervention to mandate wage levels? Moreover, Rob Misek presented an opinion, which is not fact or fiction and therefore not “lies” as you put it. He was the paper's lead reporter in Ferguson, Missouri and covering the Black Lives Matter protest movement, and was a member of the team awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for the paper's coverage of police shootings.

But you’re an idiot if you think this habit is confined to one side of the political spectrum. Margaret Sullivan in her piece asserts that "It's more than acceptable that [journalists] should stand up for civil rights—for press rights, for racial justice, for gender equity and against economic inequality." That’s where Locast comes in. “Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of ‘subjectivity vs. objectivity’ as a means of silencing oppressed peoples.

I wonder who’s now presenting a more truthful view of the world and the nation as it is. We really do make too big a deal about the threat of white supremacists. Professional Affiliations: National Association of Black Journalists, Ida B. Who fights against neighborhood re-vitalization? https://t.co/bZstOJGB4t, — Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 11, 2020, But if that's the standard then intellectual consistency requires it also be tested out on the War on Poverty, minimum wage laws, gun control, and—yes—the removal of public school admissions criteria. ", "Moral clarity would insist that politicians who traffic in racist stereotypes and tropes—however cleverly—be labeled such with clear language and unburied evidence," Lowery writes. Because that would mean they lost. No journalistic process is objective. And those selective truths have been calibrated to avoid offending the sensibilities of white readers. Fucking idiot once again conflating Republicans and libertarians. So — if we replace the possibility of ‘wrong ideas’ with ‘moral clarity’ (because, after all, who knows better than we, what YOU should be thinking, should be reading, should be saying?! Here is all the evidence that anyone needs to soundly refute the false holocaust narrative. The U.S. tax code should be front and center. I know a lot of these news media outlets are backed by people who don’t buy the news media for the profits but for the influence, but the value of that influence will also wane as more and more people tune out. But when refusing to consider counter arguments is your pathetic strategy, you are by definition a bigot. But there's a wide swath of hotly contested territory within just that four-letter word deed. effective weapons) will have to be confiscated first. Wells Society, Share confidential news tips with The Post, Jersey City grapples with ramifications of shooting at kosher market, Fifty years after the ‘Black 14’ were banished, Wyoming football reckons with the past. Learn More{{/message}}. Please pay us the way you do our colleagues. If it’s hard to shout them down, then they may try to de-platform them by threatening the venue, the speaker, the listeners, etc. That’s what you and your gang of bigots do and you have been exposed as such. We also know that neutral “objective journalism” is constructed atop a pyramid of subjective decision-making: which stories to cover, how intensely to cover those stories, which sources to seek out and include, which pieces of information are highlighted and which are downplayed. And I think the book ought also to be read as a primer about the many granular challenges involved in doing journalism today. He was a lead on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as well as the author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement (Little, Brown, 2016). May as well put NYT and CNN on the Food Network. And I’m watching stuff on cable anyway. You don't need a map to see the direction all this is heading. For non-journalists, understanding this rapidly spreading sentiment (and the repetitive, in-group jargon that comes with it) is a key to basic media literacy. “There are a lot of people hurt,” the Odessa mayor said.

Doesn’t that defeat the entire purpose? All the while, black and brown lives and livelihoods remain imperiled. It’s certainly a good and complicated discussion as to not only where traditional media institutions went wrong, but why. A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists. Wesley appears to have a brother whose nickname is “Grasshoppa” who could easily pass for his twin.

This is one of the reasons why the news media is so fucked up–because CNN and MSNBC get paid by you as a subscriber to the cable service–regardless of whether you actually watch their show. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been infringed, please notify our admin via. Lowery moved to the Washington Post in 2014; The Washingtonian described him in 2015 as the paper's "rising star...a terrific reporter" with a track record for "establishing deep sources, writing colorful solo pieces, and contributing to team coverage. Logically it can’t last. Solving the climate “crisis” is easy. Relying on the creaky tools of liberalism in the era of Donald Trump, the new argument goes, is like bringing a banana to a knife fight. 3.7K likes. It’s amazing how hard Lowery works to come up with these arguments – searching for a way perhaps to excuse their obvious failure regarding the Russian collusion delusion they fed us for years, because with the standard he wants, it’s OK because they were so morally superior.

You don’t get to decide unilaterally. Misek ‘presents’ anti-semite bigotry (he’s a holocaust denier) as and “argument”; one which every educated human rejects on the face of it: No, the death camps were not ‘delousing centers’ for Jews where the Nazis just couldn’t quite get the dose right; one of his “arguments” makes that claim. It was a brief interaction, during the first weeks of my career.

Good point. He sparked the idea for the Washington Post's "Fatal Force Project" and investigated fatal police shootings. I’m a big believer in technology and markets being the solution to our problems, and the solution to these sick fucks and the way they’ve been financing their newsrooms is a problem that technology and markets can solve. Wesley Lowery is Untitled / Stephen Aguila / July 16, 2020 4:57 PM on GQ. Difficult questions do not suddenly get "smoothed out" by the bold assertion that they belong to a binary category marked either "moral" or "immoral.". Members of the media outside a memorial service for George Floyd in Houston. Our so-called “mainstream media” today is one of the biggest and most self-delusional group of egotists you’ll ever see.

One party is going hard on their lines. Desktop notifications are on   | Turn off, Get breaking news alerts from The Washington Post. ‘Yes, we know best what’s best for you!’ As good ole’ Uncle Joe himself noted, “Ideas are more powerful than guns. If you beat me 10/10 times in a 100m. Interesting that there’s no mention on Reason today of the Ds blocking Tim Scott’s police reform bill, nor the death threats against him. You may not know it, mojavewolf, but Rob Misek is an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier. Why? Go look at the news offerings on your Roku nowadays, and you’ll see an almost limitless supply of free 24 hours news services. Now with social shaming, no due process, and post truth laws giving lies the same weight as truth, people are being persecuted more than ever for exercising 1a and sharing the truth.

"Racism, as we know, is not about what lies in the depths of a human's heart. Yeah, of course Disney owns the local ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, New York City, and elsewhere! If you start streaming and go to a service that doesn’t offer those local broadcasters, e.g, Sling or Philo, then they’re getting zero money from you as a subscriber. The idea that there is a single truth–’the Truth’–is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment, which was a movement that also described Black and Brown people as both subhuman and impervious to pain. “This adherence to even-handedness, both-sidesism, the View from Nowhere, doesn’t actually work in the political circumstances that we’re in.” Relying on the creaky tools of liberalism in the era of Donald Trump, the new argument goes, is like bringing a banana to a knife fight.”. It shows how spooked they are by having to defend their views and prejudices. The Fascist Left propagated the myth to misdirect the energies of their opponents from publishing opposing bias into complaining about lack of objectivity.

Try being critical of Bush post-9/11.