If journalism’s goal is to just appear impartial it strikes me its ambition then isn’t delivering news. I was under the impression journalists were there to evaluate fact from fiction in search for truth and inform their audience of it. Muller in this article seems to suggest that the current debate within the profession has weakened it. Peer group debate about facts I would have thought strengthened not weakened the profession. Isn’t that the methodology applied to secular rational thinking?

The letters have actually shone a light on the disjunct between journalistic ideals and the desired product that Institutional employers want them to deliver. A product that in general is a distortion of the journalistic ideal of news. At a time when journalism needs to be its strongest that open letter is just a much-needed clarion call against the truth being blocked by organizations like Ch9, News Corp, Ch7 and sadly a corrupted ABC wanting something quite different they falsely call impartiality or Trump’s equivalency but that’s definitely not news.

Source: At a time when journalism needs to be at its strongest, an open letter on the Israel/Hamas war has left the profession diminished