> The point that I wish to make here is that criticism within the
> movement is and should be a two-way street. "Movement journalists"
> should be encouraged to criticize, fairly and accurately, the
> shortcomings of the social movement in which they take part;
> organizers and activists in the movement on which "movement
> journalists" comment, in turn, should be encouraged to criticize
> their articles, again fairly and accurately. Only then can both grow.
"In Washington [...] a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured."
-- Joan Diddion, "Political Pornography" in _Political Fictions_
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