{"id":58817,"date":"2021-07-30T06:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58817"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:40:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:40:34","slug":"the-enemies-of-the-state-the-new-york-times-and-the-fluidity-of-advocacy-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58817","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Enemies of the State\u201d: The New York Times and The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Enemies of the State\u201d: The New York Times and The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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We have been discussing\u00a0the rise of advocacy journalism<\/a>\u00a0and the rejection of objectivity in journalism schools. The New York Times has been at the forefront of this shift away from traditional reporting but has increasingly found that the fluidity of advocacy journalism leaves it without any clear framework or standards. Consider the latest scandal at the Times. Justice Department reporter and MSNBC contributor Katie Benner went on a rave about Republicans and called Trump supporters \u201cenemies of the state.\u201d She also made a not-so-veiled call for readers to vote against them. The Times has been in total radio silence over what, just a few years ago, would have been viewed as an outrageous violation of journalistic standards. Yet, just recently, it fired another reporter for a comparatively mild tweet supporting Biden. Professional ethics, it seems, has become entirely impressionistic in the age of advocacy journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Notably, many of us denounced Donald Trump for\u00a0calling the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0other media<\/a>\u00a0outlets the \u201cenemy of the people.\u201d\u00a0 The media was aghast and the Times publicly condemned such rhetoric as \u201cinflammatory<\/a>.\u201d Now, however, journalists like Benner are engaging in the same inflammatory rhetoric and the Times is conspicuously silent.<\/p>\n

We have have been discussing how writers<\/a>,\u00a0editors<\/a>,\u00a0commentators<\/a>, and\u00a0academics<\/a>\u00a0have embraced rising calls for censorship and speech controls, including\u00a0President-elect Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0and his\u00a0key advisers<\/a>. This movement includes\u00a0academics rejecting the very concept of objectivity in journalism<\/a>\u00a0in favor of open advocacy.\u00a0Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll<\/a> has denounced how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being \u201cweaponized\u201d to protect disinformation…<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Enemies of the State\u201d: The New York Times and The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism We have been discussing\u00a0the rise of advocacy journalism\u00a0and the rejection of objectivity in journalism schools. The New York Times has been at the forefront of this shift away from traditional reporting but has increasingly found that the fluidity of advocacy […]<\/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":[31559,30605,462,512,1309,21167],"class_list":["post-58817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-advocacy-journalism","tag-johnathan-turley","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-state","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58817","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=58817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58818,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58817\/revisions\/58818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}