POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: United Nations Special Committee On Palestine, Watchdog Journalism, Silvio Berlusconi
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95% of journalists believe that objectivity is an important goal, even though it is very hard to achieve. At times however, there is somewhat of a congruent opinion. 58% of journalists believed that objectivity is going beyond the statements of the contending sides to the hard facts of a political dispute. For most part of north american journalism, they believe objectivity is representing both sides of the story accurately, very carefully. However, it was not in the health care bill, she was wrong. People who followed the debate on this, 29% (check percentage) thought that the death panel was true, even though it was not. Those that somewhat followed the debate, only 20% thought it was true. This is because some media went with procedural objectivity, Some other ones debunked the claim, and said the claim was false. The issue comes with how they debunked the claim.
