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Roger L. Simon is inviting comments on Pajamas Media Question #2 – ‘How can we be an online Joe Friday?’
I’ve just posted the following to that thread:
I think MSM has gotten in trouble partly by setting goals using words that don’t refer to anything that actually exists. Specifically, they try to be “objective.” There is no such thing as “objective.” There is such a thing as being 100% faithful to the truth, in other words seeking to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Being “objective” is what causes MSM to be unable to call terrorists, killers, and beheaders by their true names, and instead to call them radicals and insurgents. MSM believes that calling such people by their true names would be taking sides (which it would) and therefore would not be “objective.” There is no such thing as “objective”, but there is such a thing as helping a murderer by refusing to call him a murderer.
I agree with the consensus that the goal should not be to be “fair and balanced.” “Fair and balanced” appears to be another way of saying “objective.”
With regard to “honest and transparent”, I would suggest “100% faithful to the truth and documenting all facts with links” as being more specific language.
A related question is, what is our goal? Over the decades the goal of MSM has become merely to attack the government. MSM attacks the government regardless of the facts and regardless of what is good for this country. MSM therefore does a great deal of harm.
I would suggest that our specific goal should be “to help the American people, and Democratic people all over the world, lead successful lives; and to help people in non-Democratic countries find the way to Democracy and Capitalism, which have been the greatest engines for the health, well-being, and success of people yet discovered in human history.”
Setting specific goals will be a powerful means of achieving the success of Pajamas Media.
(Note—I’m currently providing Market Research consulting to Pajamas Media.)
