http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/when-journalists-dont-vote/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:30:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/when-journalists-dont-vote/#comment-145558 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:50:12 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/when-journalists-dont-vote/#comment-145558 Is this actually a call for journalists to drop any pretense of objectivity? How frightening and irresponsible if so. Is this actually a call for journalists to drop any pretense of objectivity? How frightening and irresponsible if so.

]]> http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/when-journalists-dont-vote/#comment-145552 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:15:08 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/when-journalists-dont-vote/#comment-145552 [...] When journalists don’t vote. A bit of a kerfuffle in the mediasphere at the moment over whether journos should vote or not. I used to buy into that absolute neutrality idea: now I’m not sure I would ever hire a journalist who ducked taking such a fundamental responsibility as voting on the grounds that it somehow interferes with their “objectivity.” [...] […] When journalists don’t vote. A bit of a kerfuffle in the mediasphere at the moment over whether journos should vote or not. I used to buy into that absolute neutrality idea: now I’m not sure I would ever hire a journalist who ducked taking such a fundamental responsibility as voting on the grounds that it somehow interferes with their “objectivity.” […]

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