Article in FAIR by Jim Naureckas, 5/23/25

Headline: “An ‘Objective’ Press Won’t Alert You to Threats to Democracy”

“. . .if you follow the Times‘ approach to journalism, in which you must never say that something is happening if someone in power claims it is not happening, then your audience won’t know when their government is acting illegally, or denying truth and reality. . .”

“. . .Journalists inevitably, inescapably, have values, and those values necessarily affect what they communicate to their audiences. If they value democracy, then they communicate to their audience that arrests of opposition lawmakers are dangerous. If, on the other hand, they value the appearance of neutrality above all else, then the message readers will get is: Who’s to say?”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/an-objective-press-wont-alert-you-to-threats-to-democracy/