{"id":58555,"date":"2021-07-10T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58555"},"modified":"2021-07-10T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T19:10:07","slug":"former-new-york-times-editor-im-a-biased-journalist-and-im-okay-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58555","title":{"rendered":"Former New York Times Editor: \u201cI\u2019m a Biased Journalist and I\u2019m Okay With That.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former New York Times Editor: \u201cI\u2019m a Biased Journalist and I\u2019m Okay With That.\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>We\u00a0have been discussing<\/a>\u00a0the movement in journalism to discard out-dated notions of objectivity and define journalism as a form of advocacy. Now, Lauren Wolfe, the recently fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her pro-Biden tweet but published a\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cI\u2019m a Biased Journalist and I\u2019m Okay With That<\/em>.\u201d It is a full-throated endorsement of the new journalistic model of open bias and advocacy. Indeed, Wolfe may have only been undone by her expressly declaring bias as opposed to reflecting bias in her writings.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wolfe was fired by the Times after she expressed the joy of watching the arrival of then-President-elect Joe Biden at Joint Base Andrews ahead of his inauguration by\u00a0writing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cI have chills.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now, in her column in the Washington Monthly, Wolfe insists that the is nothing incompatible with being biased and being a journalist.\u00a0 Indeed, she noted ever since she began as a journalist \u201cangry people come out of their hidey-holes to yell at me.\u201d\u00a0 It is certainly true that writers today are constantly barraged by trolls and critics. However, Wolfe then proceeded to fulfill that very stereotype by embracing bias as right and good in journalism.\u00a0 She attacks the very notion of objectivity that was once the touchstone of modern journalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always believed it is better to be open about my views on the issues I cover, which for a long time have been war and international human rights. And yes, I often do write with an agenda\u2014with an eye toward creating change. So yes, I am biased, and consciously so when it comes to certain subjects\u2014especially when I\u2019m reporting on criminality. But I don\u2019t see that as a bad thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Former New York Times Editor: \u201cI\u2019m a Biased Journalist and I\u2019m Okay With That.\u201d We\u00a0have been discussing\u00a0the movement in journalism to discard out-dated notions of objectivity and define journalism as a form of advocacy. Now, Lauren Wolfe, the recently fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5243,28781,462,31426,512,1921,14309],"class_list":["post-58555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bias","tag-jonathan-turley","tag-journalism","tag-lauren-wolfe","tag-media","tag-new-york-times","tag-objectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58556,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555\/revisions\/58556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}