Yesterday, the Associated Press published a story about anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that illustrates perfectly how traditional notions of journalistic objectivity and “both sides” coverage fail to meet the current moment—and even facilitate the spread of disinformation.
The Associated Press Does Free PR for Crisis Pregnancy Centers
A recent story is a glaring example of how traditional journalistic “objectivity" is far from unbiased, and can even facilitate the spread of disinformation.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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@libbyfxbg.bsky.social has served FXBG as the Commonwealth’s Attorney with objectivity, dedication, and a deeply rooted sense of justice.
In her time in office, she has worked to make FXBG safer while prioritizing fairness and transparency.
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I am proud to endorse her for reelection this November.
October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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New PRESS BOX w/ @joelanderson.bsky.social:
CBS's Halloween Bloodbath
The Rise of Jennifer Welch
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Michael Jordan Breaks His Silence
Plus: ASTEAD HERNDON on why he left the NY Times for Vox, journalistic objectivity, the Democrats, and *much* more. open.spotify.com/episode/5uqB...
CBS's Halloween Bloodbath
The Rise of Jennifer Welch
Fraught Book Tours
Michael Jordan Breaks His Silence
Plus: ASTEAD HERNDON on why he left the NY Times for Vox, journalistic objectivity, the Democrats, and *much* more. open.spotify.com/episode/5uqB...
CBS’s Halloween "Bloodbath" and Michael Jordan as the NBA's Ombudsman. Plus: Vox’s Astead Herndon on Leaving The New York Times and the Future of the Democrats.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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getting into the weeds with myself over the translation of 'neue sachlichkeit' because while new objectivity is probably the best way to say it in english, it loses something on the way
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The head of a huge CPC network (NIFLA) claims they’re held accountable via state licensing of medical directors. We just reported that CPCs have very low standards for who can run a clinic—some CPCs have a pathologist, orthopedic surgeon, or psychiatrist in charge
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October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"I remember when Jake Tapper spent months defending an American soldier who was arrested in Japan for driving erratically and running over and killing a Japanese family
always fascinating where reporters choose to abandon the veneer of objectivity"
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always fascinating where reporters choose to abandon the veneer of objectivity"
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October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Your family & friends have some objectivity that you may be lacking. He's older than you & very controlling."The silent treatment" is a childish manipulation. He sounds exhausting to be around. Wish him well with therapy but close the door on any future together; you've wasted enough energy on him.
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Pokemon haters are currently so desperate on youtube.
Since most people who actually played the game enjoy it a lot, they go much more for the "Pokemon fans are the reason everything is shit" reasoning.
There is no objectivity in what they say, just pointing fingers.
Since most people who actually played the game enjoy it a lot, they go much more for the "Pokemon fans are the reason everything is shit" reasoning.
There is no objectivity in what they say, just pointing fingers.
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Deeply upsetting when researchers lose objectivity as has happened with tobacco harm reduction antis. But replacement of combustible cigarettes by safer smoke-free nicotine products now proceeding rapidly & unstoppable. These researchers will be history’s rejects @chancethegardener.bsky.social
This moral crusade has warped public health into a form of social engineering.
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When “Lessons from Abroad” Become Spin: How Public Health Experts Twist the Truth About Australia’s Tobacco Disaster
Public health in Australia has become a theatre of denial where failed experiments are recast as global success stories, and evidence that contradicts the script is dismissed as misinformation.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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i just think reporters should probably have a view on the fascist rapist trying to export that ideology to the rest of us, instead of pretending to, & hiding behind, a false set of “objectivity” guidelines that empower said fascism. otherwise, i’m sorry, but media are part of the project by default
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This is closely related to the utterly misguided view that the only standard for truth that the media can appeal to is internal consistency: a person is only a liar or wrong if they're contradicting something they themselves said earlier. It's the empty performance of objectivity.
October 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I'm reading more of these interviews and they are extraordinarily like, "I watch Dave enter the house. He lingers over his keys, which I can interpret as a perfect measure of his interior state for you"
Good fucking lord and they think our fields have objectivity problems
Good fucking lord and they think our fields have objectivity problems
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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He dogwhistled about AI the other day and when people tried to call him out for it he said his obvious scare quotes was because he was “trying to remain objective as a journalist.”
Ah, yes, objectivity in journalism means being friends with the guy doing racist propaganda for the White House. Sure.
Ah, yes, objectivity in journalism means being friends with the guy doing racist propaganda for the White House. Sure.
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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To simplify:
Objectivity is observing an object and stating what it factually is. Eg "the stone is a stone".
Having two different people share two different opinions on the stone is not objectivity. That's just two people's subjective view on the stone
Objectivity is observing an object and stating what it factually is. Eg "the stone is a stone".
Having two different people share two different opinions on the stone is not objectivity. That's just two people's subjective view on the stone
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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“Multiple reports suggest (Jake) Tapper is seeking an interview with Donald Trump—a pursuit that could explain his recent shift toward access-oriented coverage. Objectivity, it seems, is being traded for proximity to power.”
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans Rebuke Trump for Second Night in a Row
Another 24 hours. Another two examples of how mainstream media is failing in real time.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I say amen sister as I read this Q&A with @karenattiah.bsky.social. “Objectivity, in my opinion, tends to all too often be a shield for ignoring information and perspectives that are inconvenient.” — Karen Attiah
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Karen Attiah: My firing shows mainstream media still fails on race
Attiah sat down with The Objective to discuss objectivity and Black representation at WaPo and mainstream media at large.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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This, like so much of Weiss' past work, relies on the biased and wholly false conflation of criticism of the genocidal actions of the Israeli government with support for "killing Jews." These things are obviously not the same to anyone with half a brain and even a smidgeon of objectivity.
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Hello news-o-tainment corporation “journalism” employees! Credulity is not objectivity.
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I assume that folks have seen the trash on the USDA website? I long for the days of objectivity on federal and state information sources.
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Right-wing media offers nothing of any real value. It gins up nonsense to give people something to get angry about. No objectivity, no solutions, just hate.
It's sad how that's enough for far too many people.
It's sad how that's enough for far too many people.
October 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I think it's really funny when journalists, whose entire culture demands they play both sides of whatever field they're on "for the sake of objectivity", start complaining about other types of commentators playing both sides of the field
That is some four dimensional hypocrisy right there
That is some four dimensional hypocrisy right there
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I think I know why I'm so angry at this administration and the people that support it. Its how objectivity dumb and misinformed or misguided they are. Reading a Christian Bible and getting "fuck the other"out of it. Why aren't their heads exploding with the cognitive dissonance?
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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The flaw in communication is the implication of objectivity where it simply doesn't belong. Doesn't help when people intentionally obfuscate things by claiming their opinion is, in fact, the objective truth.
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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“The epistemological structure of denialism. Not honest doubt but motivated reasoning. Not skepticism but refusal to update beliefs in response to evidence. Not objectivity but a framework constructed to make authoritarian escalation seem like ordinary politics.”
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The Broken Minds of the Anti-Anti-Trump Right
Gavin Newsom’s concern about live artillery fire over Interstate 5 was “performative.”
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October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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