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Can the Media Keep Kosher?

Summarizing Sapir · Published Wednesday, May 14, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY Amidst growing concerns about political bias in the media, the article examines the historical evolution of journalism's relationship with objectivity and activism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish History  Activism  Journalism  Media  Fox News  Truth  Bias  Msnbc  Objectivity  Walter Lippmann 

Places mentioned

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
"Arrows of malevolence was how George Washington, in 1793, described the lurid polemics of the Philadelphia-based National Gazette, a mouthpiece for the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party."
New York, United States
"What Lippmann advocated became the standard of practice for most American broadsheet and broadcast reporting for much of the rest of the century, epitomized by the likes of the New York Times A.M. Rosenthal, the Washington Posts Ben Bradlee, and CBSs Walter Cronkite."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"What Lippmann advocated became the standard of practice for most American broadsheet and broadcast reporting for much of the rest of the century, epitomized by the likes of the New York Times A.M. Rosenthal, the Washington Posts Ben Bradlee, and CBSs Walter Cronkite."
Hawaii, United States
"These sorts of prevarications illustrate how the ideal of objectivity, powerfully defensible in theory, sometimes goes badly astray in practice....noted Julien Gorbach of the University of Hawaii in a perceptive 2020 essay."
Israel
"One example: Twenty-five years ago, on the eve of the second intifada, it became the lazy fashion among the foreign press in Israel to speak about extremists on both sides of the IsraeliPalestinian conflicta handy phrase for reporters to demonstrate their own evenhandedness."
United Kingdom
"To demand scrupulous impartiality on their broadcasts is like expecting fancy linens at a Motel 6."
Ukraine
"And it isnt going away anytime soon. Media criticism that does little more than rail against it is a wasted effort. Nor is the problem that the so-called legacy press has outlived its usefulness, or that objectivity itself is a false idol, or that objective reporting must, by definition, be morally blind. Even fervent critics of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal will grudgingly concede that their reporting is essential, whether its from the Ukrainian front lines or the fentanyl labs of Mexico or the boardrooms of major companies."
Mexico
"Nor is the problem that the so-called legacy press has outlived its usefulness, or that objectivity itself is a false idol, or that objective reporting must, by definition, be morally blind. Even fervent critics of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal will grudgingly concede that their reporting is essential, whether its from the Ukrainian front lines or the fentanyl labs of Mexico or the boardrooms of major companies."

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