The debate of journalists being activists is one that has always confused me. A journalist is not an activist, but with the reporting a journalist does they protect certain parts of democracy, like activism and protests.
When we assume that a journalist is not going to about the things that they are passionate about we assume journalists robotic. No one is going to extorting research and investigations into something they do not believe in or want to refute. David Carr's article, Journalism, Even When It's Tilted, ends with a very critical tone towards journalists who seem to participate in activism, not realizing that the premise of journalism itself was rooted in the need to protest the establishment; the need to give government itself a check and balance. Carr has a sentence in his article in which he states his opinion: the activism can impair the vision of the journalist. If he was to actually practice the objective journalism he seems to be preaching left and right though his piece, he would have left his two-cents out of it. Carr managed to criticize journalists who believe in a cause in a very ironic matter, by curtailing an article to fully show his point of view on the matter. Does his cause not give him tunnel vision? Or does this only pertain to those who identify with the left. My overall problem with Carr's piece is that it is neither a news piece or an opinion piece, and I should not have to figure out which is which in a New York Times article. This is the true problem when it comes to objective and subjective articles. When I read something from Glen Greenwald I can obviously tell when he is commentating or when he is reporting. The mainstream media mixes so much of both opinion and news into stories people are getting confused. At least journalists who are also in a way activists are transparent about how they talk about things.
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AuthorHi! I'm Isabella Grullon. I am a junior journalism major at Ithaca College from the Dominican Republic and Colombia.
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