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The Elusive Search for “Objectivity” in Reporting on the Yemen War

The Elusive Search for “Objectivity” in Reporting on the Yemen War

Many media organizations so value the “view from nowhere” that they drive for a form of “objectivity” that can better be read as “politically inoffensive” reporting that is anything but “objective.”

Jul 16, 2016
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by Peter Salisbury

“So what is going on there exactly?,” a friend in New York asked of the civil war in Yemen.

I pause. “Well, I think, it depends on your point of view. I can tell you what I think is going on. But others might disagree.”

Is a “view from nowhere” really possible? Are human beings ever actually capable of seeing the same thing through diffe…

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