What is truth? According to Dictionary.com, truth is "the true or actual state of a matter". As we discussed in class on Thursday, we may search for the truth and even try to present it in a fair and balanced manner, but, the truth about 'truth' is that it is still very subjective in the way that it can be presented.
Arianna Huffington recently spoke at Ithaca College and made an arguement that journalism has a responsibility to be fair and balanced. She emphasized that the explosion of new media, including blogs, twitter, and YouTube, has allowed opportunites for truth to be told. New media will allow for protection from political influences or interest groups and there will be no partisanship involved. What I found ironic in the article is that Huffington herself is being accused of having a "left-leaning lens". Even when trying to be unbiased, we will be accused of bias. It can't be helped. We all have our own backgrounds, experiences, and opinions. We can try to leave those personal feelings out of our journalistic assignments, however, I don't think that it can be completely abandoned. We are who we are and our presentation of information, in whatever form, will be influenced by it. New media will be of some help but it can't go away completely. People will never be completely neutral.
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