One might think that a field based on objectivity and consistency would rise above this particular cultural problem.
But one of the most glaring differences between new and traditional media is their views on objectivity.
In the second blog, we established that it is possible to increase one's objectivity by reducing the "I See, Therefore It Is," meaning all of the things we make up about a situation and respond to as if "It Is," and it often just "Isn't".
Though major media outlets call for "balance" and "objectivity," one quickly notices the one-sidedness of their coverage and the language that is employed -- from the unrelenting obsession with rockets to Wolf Blitzer's traditional bomb shelter runs, there exists a palpable faithfulness to Israel's talking points.
Miguel Osuna: SPIN 2 | Working in a wide range of materials from white pencil on canvas to ballpoint pen on recycled plastic, Osuna's aesthetic is one of precision, objectivity and expansiveness.
Even after forty-two theusanimalars, the animal's undeniable cuteness threatened one's scientific objectivity.
But to advocate for a position, no matter how just or enlightened, is to risk one's novelistic objectivity.
It makes no claim to objectivity: one of the two authors, Tom Farley Jr., is Chris's brother (the other, Tanner Colby, is a co-author of a biography of Belushi), and they stack the deck a little when it comes to Farley's career.
Post-modernism, in this study, refers to the extremely radical one completely denying objectivity of scientific observation and inductive reasoning.
Either way, the acceptance of the value-laden thesis poses a challenge for re-defining scientific objectivity: one can either conclude that the ideal of objectivity is harmful and should be rejected (as Feyerabend does), or one can come up with a different and refined conception of objectivity (as Douglas and Longino do).
