Fact or opinion?
Ask yourself what the purpose of this Time cover is;
to inform
to persuade
to entertain
The purpose of this piece is clearly to persuade the reader of Time's point of view.
Time, like any newspaper, has, as its principle function, to inform. Within its pages are also opinion pieces, which are supposed to be clearly labeled. In this case, one doesn't even have to purchase the magazine to know what Time's position is. Not only is Israel's cause hopeless, but it is not even just. Even if the
article(s) within the pages were 100% even-handed, the cover puts the lie to that.
But we already know that American journalism died during the recent election.
The MSM does not inform, not any more, it indoctrinates. And all of the big papers are dying because of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat was once the fourth estate has become the clearing house for every left-wing propagandist. I suspect that many of the cable outlits will go next.
Yet if the cover said "Why Palestine Can't Win" and had a Palestinian flag on the cover, there wouldn't be a peep out of you.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't about being "unbiased" it's about you only wanting to have your own views reinforced.
Just like how you love Fox News when they have an obvious bias themselves. Just be honest and quit framing the issue like this.
If I were intellectually honest, I would point out that the cover of Time was still persuading rather than informing.
ReplyDeleteSet aside our biases: Whenever we read anything, we should ask ourselves, what is the author's purpose-to inform, persuade or entertain? If the reader can't make that distiction, they will never be well informed.
My blog's purpose is clearly to persuade. I don't hide that. My blog title says I am conservative. The problem in journalism is that this distinction often gets blurred-deliberately in many cases. That is the hallmark of a press that is usually under govt control. I lived in Thailand when the press was not free.
Here the press is free and can say all kinds of things about the establishment or govt. They should label it as opinion, however and not pass it off as fact-even if you as the reader agree with it.
That is the point I was trying to make.