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You don’t mean “culture war”

The phrase "culture war" often allows for a lazy description of the day’s events, without — for example — mentioning racism or homophobia or xenophobia,

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Even today, many journalists use this definition of “objectivity,” the extension of the “scientific method,” as a way to describe how they decide what is objective. The problem is that it’s so clearly not working. First, and perhaps the most obvious problem with objectivity is that it never worked this way. 

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How to erase Black journalists

Prominent white writers don’t want to admit they disagree with many of their Black contemporaries.

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RE: About your tweet

There are too many examples of newsrooms passing on threats to their reporters, many of them Black, indigenous, or people of color, for their tweets.

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Who exactly is telling this story?