“Objectivity has got to go,” declared media elites at a recent symposium. Objectivity exited decades ago, Adam Baldwin argues in today’s VIP episode, in favor of a Marxist narrative-journalism approach that has destroyed the media’s credibility. “The wordsmiths, if you will,” Adam says, pursue “their subjective truth in order so that they can fully actualize themselves as political activists and be thought of as important in their Movement.” The Columbia Journalism Review dismantling of the Russiagate hoax and the media’s role in it won’t have any impact on that trajectory, Adam predicts.
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Welcome back to my VIP video series “The Amiable Skeptics,” featuring my friend Adam Baldwin! Adam is well-known for his long and storied Hollywood career, starting with My Bodyguard, and especially for his roles in Full Metal Jacket, Firefly, its film sequel Serenity, Chuck, and The Last Ship.
The story about the Cronkite Media Lab symposium of media leaders came out almost simultaneously with the CJR post-mortem on the Steele Dossier and Russiagate. It served, I argue, as a declaration of doubling down on all of the corruption that produced years of political havoc in the US. They want to “dump[] objectivity as a principle for journalism because it denies people the opportunity to speak their own truths. But,” I add, “that’s journalism for the journalists, right? It doesn’t have anything to do with serving the public interest, let alone the interest of their consumers.”
At its core, it’s gutless, Adam responds. “It goes to the journalists who don’t want to report objective truths, objective facts who deny that they, they even exist. And it’s because they are intellectually lazy. It’s, it’s hard and it’s painful to face objective truths about your own self, about the world around you. So,” he concludes, “it’s much easier to create, you know, it’s like it’s creative truth, Creative writing.”
Enjoy the show, and join the conversation in the comments! Stay tuned for our next episode, in which we contrast The Science® with actual science.
