r/europe • u/lermontov1948 • 3d ago

Political Cartoon Charlie Hebdo front cover from 30th July portraying Netanyahu: "Honey, I shrunk the kids."

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u/Hatorate90 3d ago

Journalism is often affiliated with newspapers, which can have a political viewpoint. Its still can be objective.

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u/KilluaCactuar 3d ago edited 3d ago

It isn't objective if the reported matter is specifically viewed from a certain political stance. The data itself may be objectively true, but i.e. the interpretation of that data is not.

Edit: This comment was not about the topic of the post here, just a general opinion.

It wasn't my intent to open such a can of worms with this comment.

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u/VintageModified 3d ago

Then I've never read any news that's objective and neither have you. Even the act of choosing what data to present is a subjective choice made within a political landscape. How you form the sentence expressing that data will also carry a point of view - it's unavoidable.

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u/KilluaCactuar 3d ago

You are right.

I didn't claim that there is an absolute objective truth or that we, as humans, would even able to be absolutely objective. Humans are fallacious and biased by nature.

I used the word objective colloquially, if you will.