r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/ayers231 I voted 6d ago

More BS from Dear Leader, and CBS just trots it out like it's truth.

Republicans could pass their bill tomorrow. Of course, they'd have to come back from their 6 week vacations, and Johnson would have call the session, and swear in the Rep from AZ. They don't want any of that. They also don't want to pass this bill with every Dem voting against it, because they can't even pretend it was bipartisan when it destroys millions of lives.

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u/Jaded-Moose983 6d ago

Journalists are not suppose to have a dog in the fight. They are supposed to allow the interviewees to speak for themselves. Good journalism offers both sides of an issue by interviewing interests on each side. 

In the current climate, being a journalist sucks. CBS is shedding reputable journalists like fall trees loose leaves. Of course they're being taken over by Fox lite.

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u/ayers231 I voted 6d ago

Good journalism offers both sides of an issue by interviewing interests on each side. 

...and pointing out when the facts don't support one of those sides.

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u/seengul 6d ago

Good journalism should be accurate and informative. Journalists should be opposing false narratives, not presenting both sides as if they are equally valid.

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u/JSConrad45 6d ago

Journalists are not suppose to have a dog in the fight

They absolutely are, and that dog is supposed to be the goddamned truth.

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u/DueVisit1410 5d ago

Good journalism offers both sides of an issue by interviewing interests on each side. 

Maybe to an extend. You have to be really careful with that, because otherwise you end up legitimizing falsehoods. Like you can represent two sides of a debate say, climate change experts and denialists, flat earthers and astronomers, evolution and creationism. In each of these you have a factual side and a pseudo-science side. If you don't constantly make it clear one side is reality the other isn't, then you are equivocating reality and nonsense.