Call it ‘fairness first’: WaPo writer urges anti-Trump media to abandon all neutrality, but spin it better

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In a shockingly oblivious show of sanctimony and self-delusion, a Washington Post blogger urged everyone in the media to be even harsher in their coverage of President Trump and to push their anti-Trump opinions as objective news.

Fox News analyst Brit Hume — a frequent Trump critic — was shocked at WaPo “media columnist” Margaret Sullivan and her call to “abandon neutrality” when covering Trump. Why? Because the media were never “neutral” in covering the President to begin with.

Hume called Sullivan’s exhortation to “abandon neutrality” a “complete misnomer.”

Hume explained: “This is simply an argument for opinion masquerading as ‘news’ coverage. It begins with journalists’ opinion as to which views have merit and which have not. Shouldn’t it be left to readers and viewers to decide that?”

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/0...ndon-all-neutrality-but-spin-it-better-890571

 

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Yeah, baby.......... in response to people asking her for "just the facts"

That sounds good in theory. In practice, every piece of reporting on national politics is unavoidably the product of choices: What’s the angle? Who is quoted? What’s the headline? How much historical context is there?”