Journalism Foundation Urges Ditching Objectivity in Favor of 'Social Justice'

“How many fingers, Winston?”  —O’Brien in 1984

Media figures often love to profess their “objectivity.” However, as with Chuck Todd who once proclaimed he was a mere “referee,” few believe that laughable claim. In fact, a major journalism foundation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University via its NeimanLab published a plea for ditching objectivity in favor of “solidarity for social justice.” The author is Dr. Anita Varma, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin.

Here is Varma’s disdain for objectivity in favor of the social justice greater good which sounds as if it is straight out of Orwell.