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The Media Mirror Has Two Faces

The media’s onanistic Mirror Awards give us a glimpse into what really motivates them.

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People line up for taxis across the street from the New York Times headquarters in 2013.

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Two recent pieces in Vox and the New York Times say outright what many of us have long understood is an implicit belief among our elite media: that the media are motivated — and should be motivated — by ideology, not objectivity.

Of course, the ethics guidelines and mission statements of leading outlets have yet to acknowledge this reality, and many still read like paeans to the old gods.

JM

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James McCarthy

James McCarthy is an assiduously neutral and dispassionate communications consultant in New York.

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