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Atlanta Progressive News Fires Reporter For Trying To Be Objective

Posted by samzenpus on from the fair-and-subjective dept.

Jonathan Springston, a longtime writer for Atlanta Progressive News was recently fired because his vision of fact-based reporting didn't match his boss's. A statement released by his editor, Matthew Cardinale, said Springston was asked to leave, “because he held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News.” While I appreciate the editor's honesty, I have to wonder about the wisdom of guiding your news organization into the philosophical position that objective reality does not exist. Talk amongst yourselves.

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  1. Seems true to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We can *try* be objective, but it won't ever happen. In some ways it seems better to state your biases up front and report it as you see it.

    1. Re:Seems true to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Unfortunately Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, CNBC, etc., and the blogosphere seem to have grown accustomed to the idea that having a right to your own opinion means that you have a right to your own facts, also.

      There, fixed it for you.