Re: KathViner tweets about the fraudian's latest Assange hand wringing Archived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov on May 28, 2019, 9:12 pm, in reply to "Re: KathViner tweets about the fraudian's latest Assange hand wringing"
Indeed. Nobody can be this delusional right? https://twitter.com/KathViner/status/931491908395962368 In these disorientating times, championing the public interest – which has always been at the heart of the Guardian’s mission – has become an urgent necessity. I wrote a long article about that: She just cannot really believe that. Lovely to see her being taken to task in the twitter thread AGAIN. Every thread I've read where she's made one of these pronouncements has been almost 100% critical. You would think that would provoke some self-examination if she really believed what she was saying, but apparently not. Mind you, she probably doesn't run her own twitter account most of the time. As for the article itself...the horror, the horror... https://www.dumptheguardian.com/news/2017/nov/16/a-mission-for-journalism-in-a-time-of-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw This is the "big" finish....definitely rated "more than one sick bag".... To steal Rainer Maria Rilke’s phrase, we must “live the questions now”: constantly examining our assumptions, our biases, how the world is changing, what it means. To do this, we will follow five principles: we will develop ideas that help improve the world, not just critique it; we will collaborate with readers, and others, to have greater impact; we will diversify, to have richer reporting from a representative newsroom; we will be meaningful in all of our work; and, underpinning it all, we will report fairly on people as well as power and find things out. This is a challenge: a challenge for us at the Guardian to grab these principles, develop them and use them in all we do; a challenge to Guardian readers, to engage with us, support us if you believe in us, participate, advocate; and a challenge to all media organisations, to find ways to face this moment. It certainly must have been a challenge to type that shit with a straight face.
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