Sunday, June 13, 2004
Self Parody Alert
Are these guys just incapable of getting it, or what?
Greg Mitchell, Editor of Editor and Publisher, is promising to look further into the numbers behind the Pew survey which finds that newsrooms are significantly further to the left than the communities they serve.
And promises that they'll be "calling Peoria."
But he also says this:
So this guy can call Peoria. But he's so out of it that he wouldn't be able to comprehend what Peoria's telling him.
Look--this has nothing to do with being non-judgemental. What this reflects is the widely percieved failure of pure materialism to provide a constant and accepted standard of moral behavior. It's not a new debate at all.
I mean, I don't mind explaining some things about warfighting to a reporter who doesn't normally cover it. But this is basic liberal arts and humanities stuff here.
There are plenty of judgemental atheists. Anyone who associates nonbelief in God with an ability to be non-judgemental is reading too much of his own press.
And Mitchell is exhibiting a very profound judgementalism of his own.
Splash, out
Jason
Greg Mitchell, Editor of Editor and Publisher, is promising to look further into the numbers behind the Pew survey which finds that newsrooms are significantly further to the left than the communities they serve.
And promises that they'll be "calling Peoria."
But he also says this:
Much has been made of the "values gap" allegedly revealed by the Pew survey's few questions in that area. For example, only 15% of newsroomers, according to Pew, believe you have to believe in God to be a "truly moral" person, while 60% of the public feels that way -- a stark divide. Is this to be lamented -- or is the ability to be non-judgmental actually a quality that should be encouraged in newsrooms?
So this guy can call Peoria. But he's so out of it that he wouldn't be able to comprehend what Peoria's telling him.
Look--this has nothing to do with being non-judgemental. What this reflects is the widely percieved failure of pure materialism to provide a constant and accepted standard of moral behavior. It's not a new debate at all.
I mean, I don't mind explaining some things about warfighting to a reporter who doesn't normally cover it. But this is basic liberal arts and humanities stuff here.
There are plenty of judgemental atheists. Anyone who associates nonbelief in God with an ability to be non-judgemental is reading too much of his own press.
And Mitchell is exhibiting a very profound judgementalism of his own.
Splash, out
Jason
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