Q&A - 07/20/08 BRIT HUME
QUOTE:
"None of us is objective. You can't be objective. But what you can try to be is fair. I mean, David Brinkley, as I recall, was one of the first people I ever heard say that. You can't be objective you're a sentient human being. You're going to have views and reactions to things. But I'll say this about it - I believe that fairness begins with awareness that no you are not objective and that it is your professional duty and responsibility to be aware of that and to carry that with you into the work that you do so that you can be fair.".... ...."And it's not that hard to do. I mean, think of the people in the other professions - in the practice of law, Lawyers represent clients they disagree with, they even represent view points they disagree with - they do it all of the time. And they do a good job of it because they're professionally trained to do it. We as journalists are, or should be, professionally trained to do that as well. To go out and assess a story based on it's news value and to order it and prioritize what we see in such a way to reflect news values and report it that way."
COMMENT:
Look at this perspective of the honorable role of journalism compared to what Rush argued on 04/30/08 with his caller, Raymond.
RUSH:
"Uhhhh, pfft, who's, who, who - of course we're doing something. I'm losing you here. Where do you get the idea the media is supposed to be oriented in truth?"
RAYMOND:
"Rush! The Founding Fathers told us that we couldn't trust our elected officials. They gave the media constitutional protection in the constitution."
RUSH:
"Right. But they didn't say anything about truth." [This statement is pure asinine - unbecoming to Rush's typical excellence]
RAYMOND:
"But they were the only private sector entity that was mentioned in the Constitution in order to be our Watchdogs!."
RUSH:
"They just said a free and open press. They didn't talk about the truth."
