I didn’t tell war stories but instead spoke about something more conceptual: the myth of the “objective journalist.” I distinguished that idea from the principles of journalism, which, through an organizational system of checks and balances, have built a goal of objectivity into the process of reporting. But there is no such thing as an objective journalist; anyone who says otherwise is lying. It was important to define what people meant by “objectivity” because it is the word used to attack journalists for somehow being dishonest or biased. That’s why I react to it as strongly as I do. I
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