Can the media ever be impartial? | Philip Collins, Matthew Goodwin, Sophie Scott-Brown

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Philip Collins, Matthew Goodwin, and Sophie Scott-Brown discuss what impartiality means in our current media landscape.
If complete impartiality is impossible to achieve, what should be striven for instead?
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Most of us think news should be impartial. A recent worldwide poll found that 75% of people favour neutrality and claim to choose the news provider they think most in line with the truth. But many argue impartiality is not achievable and that the claim risks hiding propaganda under the guise of truth. Respected Western media outlets such as the BBC, CBS, The Times, and The Washington Post don't look impartial when viewed from Tehran, Bejing, and Moscow. Nor does their coverage of WWII look impartial if read today.
Should we conclude that all media sources inevitably carry a particular perspective and claims of impartiality are false? Would we be better off seeing all media as partisan but requiring, from their different partisan outlooks, a determination to cover events factually from their point of view? Or is impartiality still a valuable goal even if it can never be achieved?
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Join Florence Read as she hosts a debate between Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and bestselling author, Philip Collins, writer-in-chief at The Draft and contributing editor at the New Statesman, and Sophie Scott-Brown, fellow at the European Institute at the University of Oxford, on whether or not media can ever claim to be impartial.
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00:00 Introduction
00:18 Matthew Goodwin shares his view
03:20 Philip Collins shares his view
07:10 Sophie Scott-Brown shares her view
10:41 Who is evaluating truth?
11:50 Impartiality in universities
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@TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas 4 ай бұрын

Should the media be impartial? What else can it strive for? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. iai.tv/video/the-impartiality-illusion?KZbin&

@ShonMardani 4 ай бұрын

It is a shame that after hundreds of years of journalism you guys are getting advice on fundamentals. This means marduk had destroyed your country and prince harry is getting rich to sell out the english.

@ShonMardani 4 ай бұрын

Journalists need to know that they are not experts in anything and nobody cares about their personal opinion. You need to be a whistleblower [via an investigation] to have any value. We monitor the media to find clues and something useful among your propaganda and misinformation. You need to be brave, honest and on the side of the victims and show hope for humanity.

@vietimports 4 ай бұрын

no. it will forever be beholden to whatever is funding it. the state, the corporation, or the subscriber.

@anmolagrawal5358 28 күн бұрын

Indeed. You cannot claim to be impartial so as long as it feeds your tummy

@pdxyadayada 4 ай бұрын

‘News value’ is not impartial by its nature. If the news presenting agencies are hoping to ‘improve’ ratings (and profits), then certain ‘content’ will be preferential over others. So, as long as there is a ‘profit’ motive in news presentation, how can there be impartiality?

@hcspero 4 ай бұрын

What groups own or control the media? You have to ask the correct questions to get the correct answers.

@bortsdale 4 ай бұрын

I think brits would get a knock on the door from the police for answering this question.

@henkverhaeren3759 4 ай бұрын

Media can't be impartial. That's why free speech is necessary. There are as many as possible voices needed to come closer to the truth.

@kevinmcfarlane2752 4 ай бұрын

As far as the MSM is concerned it’s not so much partiality or not that is the problem but their frequent dishonesty and often demonstrable misinformation at best or disinformation at worst.

@mohibquadri4053 4 ай бұрын

For that to happen we should strictly teach morality & consciousness subject right from the beginning to all journalists so that they refuse to become slaves for money.

@hcspero 4 ай бұрын

Naive talking heads?

@futures2247 4 ай бұрын

not a chance

@ShonMardani 4 ай бұрын

@user-btmbangalore 4 ай бұрын

Inflammatory media can be used by both parties on opposite ends of an emotional or social issue. The guidelines are supposed to rein in passions. Not give into propagandist tendency or make victors of sadistic and vicious tempered bullies. The institution of media has locus standi only and only when it can seperate itself from one sided bargains that happen routinely everywhere else. In a an fast paced era when people can not squeeze in time to read lengthy articles, the TV newsroom has become most preffered option to get reports and views. In a written news story or column the heckling is far less registered, the average man is as a rule swayed by heckling, it takes unusual observation and judgment to not be swayed by the weeks and months long heckling. The manipulator may want prioritization of pet issues through a disguised impartial news studio. He will not want opposing minds or fair view represented at all or even chose to plant a buffoon to present the cause of the common good. We may arrive or have already arrived at a perilous phase where the news studio has become irresponsible and insensitive.

@CHIEF_420 4 ай бұрын

🌎 = 🙈