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Advocacy journalism.

1/ I can't help but wonder: what did many of these reporters—those eager to be the arbiters of higher truth, who want to decide what gets shared and what gets concealed—what did they do when the NYT published a Der Sturmer-like cartoon? Not much.
2/ In practice, advocacy journalism rejects the idea that reporters should fully and forthrightly share the facts, so we the readers can assess and make up our minds. We're meant to trust journalists' view of what the *real* truth is. That their biases are the *correct* biases.
3/ Alas, these are the reporters who thought Valerie Plame's rabidly antisemitic comments weren't relevant to a story about her run for office. The ones who let an antisemite plug an antisemitic book by David Icke, and didn't care what their readers knew, or what Jews thought.
4/ Jews are being punched in the streets of New York, shot in their synagogues, and stabbed at their festivals. And, sorry, I don't trust the revolting journalists to care too much about us. camera.org/article/does-t…
5/ The advocacy journalists can frame it as "without worrying about alienating conservatives" all day long. Whatever that means.

They don't want to worry about striving for objectivity. For distrusting their own biases.
6/ So they might not worry about conservatives. But they might not worry so much about Jews either. They might not worry about black store owners. They might not worry about Bahai in Iran. They might stop worrying tomorrow about what they worry about today.
7/ You might also call it populist journalism.
9/ This framing seems compelling. But it's not a question of "Should journalists care more or less about truth?"

Better questions: 1) how best to get to truth. 2) What if journalists' sense of "truth" is wrong on a given situation?

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