{"id":135979,"date":"2022-09-25T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=135979"},"modified":"2022-09-25T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T20:54:17","slug":"wowser-we-have-to-collectively-in-essence-burn-down-the-republican-party-we-have-to-level-them-because-if-there-are-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=135979","title":{"rendered":"

WOWSER!!!<\/span> \u201cWe have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Republican Party. We have to level them because if there are survivors….”<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Post Columnist Calls for the End of Impartiality and Balance in Journalism<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By JONATHAN TURLEY<\/p>\n

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In an age of rage, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin has long been a standout in her attacks on Republicans and conservatives: \u201cWe have to collectively, in essence,\u00a0burn down the Republican Party<\/a>. We have to level them because if there are survivors, if there are people who weather this storm, they will do it again.\u201d However, her recent column shows that she has made a clean break not only from Republicans but from reason. The writer (long cited by the Post as their \u201cRepublican columnist\u201d for balance) has called for the media to abandon balance and impartiality. Rubin is demanding that the media just become overt advocates in refusing to report both sides in the myriad of political issues in this election.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her column, Rubin rejects\u00a0the \u201cneed for false balance\u201d because the coverage can suggest that Republicans are \u201crational.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kabuki dance in which Trump, his defenders and his supporters are treated as rational (clever even!) is what comes from a media establishment that refuses to discard its need for false balance that it has developed over the course of decades.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That balance was once called \u201cjournalism\u201d but Rubin now calls it facilitating \u201cdisinformation.\u201d Balanced reporting is now dangerous and makes the media \u201ca megaphone for disinformation, upholding the pretense that there are two political parties with equally valid takes on reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is striking is how Rubin objects to the current coverage when many already\u00a0object to a heavy bias<\/a>\u00a0in such reporting. Yet, Rubin believes the media must go further.<\/p>\n

Rubin\u2019s attack on disinformation is ironic given her own past controversies in misrepresenting news, cases, and events. For full disclosure, I\u00a0clashed with Rubin<\/a>\u00a0over her personally attacking me for a theory that I did not agree with in a column that I did not write. I also\u00a0challenged her on an equally bizarre column<\/a>\u00a0where she wrote about my impeachment testimony and\u00a0later column misrepresenting the holding in an appellate case involving Trump<\/a>. That false account was never corrected by the Washington Post. It appears that misrepresenting the holding of a major case is not being a \u201ca megaphone for disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubin, however, is not alone in this call to abandon the foundational principle of impartiality in journalism.<\/p>\n

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Continue reading this horror story at:<\/strong> https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/09\/24\/washington-post-columnist-calls-for-the-end-of-impartiality-and-balance-in-journalism\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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