Journalists that won't reveal their bias are phonies. So says Lou Dobbs. More on that in a second.
Once again this weblog-- I on Media-- calls and challenges journalists to identify, disclose, declare, reveal, and publish their political biases and perspectives to their audience; to reveal conflicts of interest, in material form with a label attached to their journalism, perhaps as simple as who the journalist votes for; readers deserve nothing less.
Financial reporters already disclose conflicts of interest. It's time for political reporters to do the same. CNN's Dobbs agrees, stating: "every reporter on television, every editor, every reporter in the newspapers and magazines and on the web, there ought to be a little identification like we put on the lower third of the screen for an elected official, D or republican from Iowa or Des Moines or whatever, put that under there, we're journalist, declare yourself."
Dobbs continues "When these news organizations are doing this and trying to pretend cloaking themselves in the mantle of objectivity, you know, they're silly, (trulish), absolutely in my opinion, despicable phonies. They need to step out, they need to be objective or get their opinions out where it can be examined."
