Re-thinking objectivity

.... is just way too much to handle. That was my first thought when going over the report on objectivity and the changing media in the CJR. But when I thought about the reasons I wasn't prepared to redefine the way I think about journalism, I realized it's probably because they are right.

Objectivity is easier than bias.

We've all been taught the ropes of journalism, so at this point, I think it's harder to find ways to make things work by breaking the mold than to just go with it.

I think the most interesting point they made in the report was that objectivity originally made its way into journalism for economic reasons - since it was expensive to produce journalism back in the day, the media had to appeal to as many readers as possible. Today, that is clearly not the case. With the MSM moving to the Internet, there' s a lot less worry about readership and money via subscriptions and news stand sales - instead, journalists can be as bias as they want and appeal to as few people as they want.

hmm .... it's so crazy, it just might work.