Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically 'objective' to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.