THE GOOD WAR:

Obama's Foxhole: Is journalistic objectivity at risk of becoming collateral damage in the war between Fox News and the White House? (Terence Samuel, October 23, 2009, American Prospect)

The larger issue at play is whether the public will ever again seriously differentiate between newsgathering that serves the public good, and information-gathering that serves a specific cause. Fox is not the New York Times, and we should make the distinction.

Destroying the bizarre notion that the news media is the one uniquely objective human institution is all to the good. Let them all be honest about their subjectivity and we can decide about their content. Pretending, for instance, that a NY Times that is staffed by a Gay Mafia is the model of objectivity is obviously silly.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 23, 2009 5:30 AM