It’s extremely disappointing to see Foreign Policy (!) succumbing you the journalists-turned-activists craze that is damaging the credibility of mainstream media and threatens to remove the appeal to truth and objectivity from the sphere of journalism.
While this is not an isolated American occurrence, it is certainly a much bigger proble…
It’s extremely disappointing to see Foreign Policy (!) succumbing you the journalists-turned-activists craze that is damaging the credibility of mainstream media and threatens to remove the appeal to truth and objectivity from the sphere of journalism.
While this is not an isolated American occurrence, it is certainly a much bigger problem in the US than elsewhere (I’m also aware of problematic tendencies in Canada and the U.K., where I live). In the U.K., the Guardian has suffered from it the most, as evidenced by the Suzanne Moore fiasco which you covered in a Blocked and Reported episode from a few weeks ago. A big contributor to this turn at the Guardian has been the US contingent at the newspaper; interestingly, most of the nuanced, reasoned analysis of the Bell vs. Tavistock case and the wider context has been found in either centre-right mainstream outlets (The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph) or small upstarts (Unherd). The American media landscape is more polarised - I worry that this is leading to an increasing retreat of reason to individual voices like yourself, while the mainstream media keeps on waging a never-ending culture war.
It’s extremely disappointing to see Foreign Policy (!) succumbing you the journalists-turned-activists craze that is damaging the credibility of mainstream media and threatens to remove the appeal to truth and objectivity from the sphere of journalism.
While this is not an isolated American occurrence, it is certainly a much bigger problem in the US than elsewhere (I’m also aware of problematic tendencies in Canada and the U.K., where I live). In the U.K., the Guardian has suffered from it the most, as evidenced by the Suzanne Moore fiasco which you covered in a Blocked and Reported episode from a few weeks ago. A big contributor to this turn at the Guardian has been the US contingent at the newspaper; interestingly, most of the nuanced, reasoned analysis of the Bell vs. Tavistock case and the wider context has been found in either centre-right mainstream outlets (The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph) or small upstarts (Unherd). The American media landscape is more polarised - I worry that this is leading to an increasing retreat of reason to individual voices like yourself, while the mainstream media keeps on waging a never-ending culture war.