MOST JOURNALISTS DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIR COVERAGE

Depressing Pew study. Majority of today's journalists don't believe both sides of any issue deserve coverage. Massive majority of the public disagrees.https://t.co/y8ZV5Zaxjp

— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) July 14, 2022

Journalists Mobilize Against Free Speech

 

American journalism once thought of itself as being inherently and institutionally pro free speech. Visitors to the Newseum, the media industry’s temple of self-glorification on Constitution Avenue in Washington, were once greeted with the First Amendment inscribed across 74 vertical feet of lofty marble. The Newseum has been closed since late 2019, its operators having discovered the hard way that the public doesn’t share the media’s heroic level of regard for itself.