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I keep hoping to see a realignment and move back toward ethics and integrity in journalism. Media plays a pivotal role in our society and they must forge a path back toward some version of impartiality and objectivity. People are tuning out and that is terrible for everyone in a country.
Michael Shellenberger writes:

You know it is bad when CNN just decides to concoct its own narrative regardless of what the facts actually are.
Such a blatant obvious lie. No one with any amount of journalistic integrity would do this. Go to 3:40 to see the discussion on the barefaced dishonesty featured on CNN.
Just look at the ‘evolution’ of how this news article is frame. Let’s start with the original.

Hmm, does that seem like an objective analysis and portrayal of what was said? Community notes on X got a hold of the hatchet job and suddenly the original tweet was deleted and replaced with this:

Well, doesn’t that headline evoke a different reaction.
Here is the original quote:

Hmmm. Now think for yourself and try and think of way to make an honest headline – then think of a way to make the headline reflect negatively on a candidate whose politics you happen to dislike.
I’m questioning what is being taught in the ethics of journalism classes because the original example seems pretty much as far away from objective, unbiased reporting one can get.
Oh hey, the icing on the cake:

Legacy media really needs to find a way back to honest reporting.

We need a media we can put more trust in. Let’s start with this.





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