If you’d have taken that bet with me, you’d have won. The consensus on the panel was there was no bias at all ? “the media are no more liberally biased than they are conservatively biased.” That’s just the problem. Journalists are supposed to be activists, they said.1

But they can’t when they’re trying to be objective, apparently, because “current efforts by the newspapers and reporters to stay objective is really hurting quality of analytic reporting.”

“Objectivity,” said journalism professor Cat ‘I wish I could laugh’ Warren, is “an excuse for reporters to not challenge those in power and to not report the right stories.”

But if you’d have taken my double-or-nothing, you’d have lost2: “Professor Michael Cobb …[said] that corporate bias has clouded editors’ judgment on what should be printed.”


Notes

1. Let’s all take a moment to reflect on the grand irony of a journalism professor who, having written that the idea of a liberal bias on campus is just the working of a well-orchestrated conservative campaign, is now on campus arguing for activist, leftist journalists and against objectivity in journalism.

2. This is the second time in as many attempts that I’ve made a successful forecast concerning the Indy; the first was when I joked that we may be portrayed as having “fangs, horns or a pointed tail” in the Indy’s upcoming article on the Pope Center (see the very end of the post).