{"id":9012,"date":"2015-06-11T07:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2015-06-11T07:11:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:11:28","slug":"american-journalisms-ideology-why-the-liberal-media-is-fundamentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9012","title":{"rendered":"American journalism\u2019s ideology: Why the \u201cliberal\u201d media is fundamentalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/zcomm.org\/znetarticle\/american-journalisms-ideology-why-the-liberal-media-is-fundamentalist\/\" target=\"_blank\">American journalism\u2019s ideology: Why the \u201cliberal\u201d media is fundamentalist<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Note: The memo below is my response to an editor at a U.S. news organization who was soliciting feedback for a review of the organization\u2019s coverage of environmental news. From a conservative point of view, this newsroom is part of the \u201cliberal media.\u201d My goal in the memo was to step back from that superficial, diversionary label and evaluate the deeper ideological commitments that shape mainstream news.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Evaluation of a news media outlet\u2019s coverage of a subject often focuses on a critique of how stories are covered, suggestions for how stories can be improved, and ideas for stories that currently aren\u2019t being covered. Such an evaluation of XYZ\u2019s environmental coverage would be useful, but it also is crucial to consider more basic questions about the ideological framework in which the coverage goes forward.<\/p>\n<p>Talk of journalism\u2019s ideology typically meets resistance, given that journalists routinely assert that they are non-ideological. If \u201cideology\u201d is defined as a rigid, even fanatical, devotion to a set of ideas no matter what the evidence, then it is a good thing for journalists (and everyone else) to avoid ideology. But if ideology is understood as the set of social attitudes, political beliefs, and moral values that shape one\u2019s interpretation of the world, then everyone works within an ideological framework, including journalists. Then the task is to understand competing ideologies, including one\u2019s own, and not to imagine that anyone, or any institution, transcends ideology.<\/p>\n<p>There are three key elements to the dominant ideology of the contemporary United States\u2014involving world affairs, economics, and ecology\u2014which can be best understood as forms of fundamentalism. Moving beyond the religious roots of the term, we can understand fundamentalism as any intellectual, political, or moral position that asserts a certainty in the truth and\/or righteousness of a belief system. In that sense, the United States is an especially fundamentalist country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American journalism\u2019s ideology: Why the \u201cliberal\u201d media is fundamentalist Note: The memo below is my response to an editor at a U.S. news organization who was soliciting feedback for a review of the organization\u2019s coverage of environmental news. From a conservative point of view, this newsroom is part of the \u201cliberal media.\u201d My goal in [&hellip;]<\/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":[3212,6297,6294,6293,6295,462,6214,512,6296,1494,6298,6299],"class_list":["post-9012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-belief-system","tag-economic-fundamentalism","tag-fundamentalism","tag-fundamentalist","tag-ideology","tag-journalism","tag-liberal","tag-media","tag-national-fundamentalism","tag-press","tag-technological-fundamentalism","tag-znet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012","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=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}