{"id":32239,"date":"2022-10-20T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32239"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:08:24","slug":"deja-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32239","title":{"rendered":"Deja Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhy not say<\/a>, \u2018Hey, this is the path. We\u2019re not going to be MSNBC, we\u2019re not going to be Fox.<\/strong> We\u2019re going to go after independent thinkers\u2019?\u201d Smerconish said Oct. 7 at the Un-Convention, a gathering designed to \u201cfind common ground\u201d across politics. \"And I don\u2019t just mean just me on Saturday. We\u2019re going to build a whole network around that principle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does that appeal mean Smerconish no longer believes CNN is a \u201cnon-ideological\u201d network? He responds via email with a quip straight from the centrist\u2019s credo: \u201cA good day for me is when half of social media say they hope I\u2019ll be fired because I belong on Fox, and the rest complain that I\u2019m carrying water for [President] Biden.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Flashback to 2010<\/a> and this faux-interview (Jay Rosen, the author, did both Q and A in this):<\/p>\n

\nQ. You are very critical of the View from Nowhere in journalism. It\u2019s almost a derisive term for you.<\/p>\n

A. That\u2019s true. I let my disdain for it show.<\/p>\n

Q. Why?<\/p>\n

A. Because it has unearned authority in the American press. If in doing the serious work of journalism\u2013digging, reporting, verification, mastering a beat\u2013you develop a view, expressing that view does not diminish your authority. It may even add to it. The View from Nowhere doesn\u2019t know from this. It also encourages journalists to develop bad habits. Like: criticism from both sides is a sign that you\u2019re doing something right, when you could be doing everything wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When MSNBC suspends Keith Olbermann for donating without company permission to candidates he supports\u2013 that\u2019s dumb. When NPR forbids its \u201cnews analysts\u201d from expressing a view on matters they are empowered to analyze\u2013 that\u2019s dumb. When reporters have to \u201claunder\u201d their views by putting them in the mouths of think tank experts: dumb. When editors at the Washington Post decline even to investigate whether the size of rallies on the Mall can be reliably estimated because they want to avoid charges of \u201cleaning one way or the other,\u201d as one of them recently put it, that is dumb. When CNN thinks that, because it\u2019s not MSNBC and it\u2019s not Fox, it\u2019s the only the \u201creal news network\u201d on cable, CNN is being dumb about itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, American journalism is dumber than most journalists, who often share my sense of absurdity about these practices. A major reason we have a practice less intelligent than its practitioners is the prestige that the View from Nowhere still claims in American newsrooms. You asked me why I am derisive toward it. That\u2019s why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhy not say, \u2018Hey, this is the path. We\u2019re not going to be MSNBC, we\u2019re not going to be Fox. We\u2019re going to go after independent thinkers\u2019?\u201d Smerconish said Oct. 7 at the Un-Convention, a gathering designed to \u201cfind common ground\u201d across politics. \"And I don\u2019t just mean just me on Saturday. We\u2019re going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32240,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32239\/revisions\/32240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}