Jayhawk Political Communicating: Objective journalism is dead!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Lacey said...: I'm going to guess that you were being somewhat facetious in this post, but sometimes its hard to tell in a blog. I actually thought the opposite. The reporter in the article even said, "That isn't Sen. Obama's fault."

I do think this article is significant. The fact that only 8% of people polled believe that journalists on the whole are objective has serious connotations. Instead of reporting the news with "just the facts," Americans believe that 92% of journalists frame their stories to make one candidate look better than the other.

As a student of journalism in my undergraduate courses I am frustrated. My stories for the university would have never been published if they had been so obviously biased, yet professional journalists get away with it all the time.

I do not believe it is accurate to say the media has a liberal bias. I think it's accurate to say that some media has a liberal bias, some has a conservative bias, and there are very, very few that do not fit in either category. I know that Dr. Strother would disagree with me, but that is what I see from where I sit, and obviously I am not the only one.; October 29, 2008 at 7:46 AM

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