(01-20-2022, 06:32 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(01-19-2022, 09:41 PM)copycat Wrote: Ideally both.  What they are now is partisan to the core.

The media cannot be both neutral and objective.  Neutral means even-handed.  Objective means calling things as you see them.  Those two things are not compatible.

I disagree. Neutral means not engaged on either side. Objective means based on facts over feelings. You can take a side and speak facts only. This was the media's MO for years before they decided to drop the pretenses of neutrality. Objectivity without neutrality does not eliminate bias, and that should be the goal. 

Neutrality also doesn't imply that the facts don't end up condemning one side over the other. A neutral judge has to be objective in order for the law to work. Same is true with the media and news.

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