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| Press critic and hero of rectificationism Eric Boehlert of Media Matters and more recently his own bloggy Press Run, who died incomprehensibly on Monday in a bike collision with a train on the Montclair-Boonton line near his home in Montclair, New Jersey, at the age of 56. I'm feeling so bad about this. Photo from Salon. |
"Why ethics matters", please not "why ethics matter". Construing "ethics" as a plural (as in "how many ethics do you have?") is an automatic disqualifier https://t.co/97efItHcTg
— Woker Cupcake Bible (@Yastreblyansky) April 7, 2022
Imagine seriously talking about "Why physics matter". What is a physic?
(In old-fashioned medical practice, it's a medicine—"You must take some physic
for that, my lord.") There's a suitable use for a singular "ethic" in modern
English, as there is for "aesthetic", but "ethic" is isn't its plural; "an
ethic" is ethics focused on a particularly narrow subject matter with a
singular set of principles, where ethics is the broad discussion of all the
different princples you might adopt.
The real problem with thinking like that of Balderas is the myth of "objectivity" in description of social phenomena, the idea that a journalist can adopt what Rosen calls a "view from nowhere". In fact there isn't a place "outside" of society from which you could observe it.
— Woker Cupcake Bible (@Yastreblyansky) April 7, 2022
(like NYTimes Peter Baker, proud that he doesn't vote), you're effectively against it, presenting yourself as superior to the masses, AND dishonest. In this way, far from freeing itself from bias, "ethical" journalism of the kind espoused by these guys is dishonest, HIDING bias.
— Woker Cupcake Bible (@Yastreblyansky) April 7, 2022
A truly ethical journalistic practice is one that acknowledges its bias so the reader can correct for it. (It should also be accurate, scrupulously sourced, and fair to everybody.) RIP Eric Boehlert, who exemplified this so well.
— Woker Cupcake Bible (@Yastreblyansky) April 7, 2022
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