LSE Research | Is news reporting fair and objective?

Journalists usually try to be observers, but recently something has changed. We now increasingly see journalists living the story rather than just telling it. In this film LSE’s Professor Charlie Beckett looks at how news reporting is changing. The film draws upon the findings of 'Rescue or report? The ethical and editorial dilemmas of crisis journalism', written by the journalist Petra Olsson under the supervision of Charlie Beckett.
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Its hard to see media as anything but one tool in the political arsenal. A means to sway opinion and legitimate the incursions of private interest and the legislative programmes of those in executive office.

[@patria213]

Is it possible to name the music from 1:30 to 2:07?

[@kpjlflsknflksnflknsa]

Not when the media incentive structure encourages deference to corporate interest.

[@YourSakuraDream]

Very useful for my Sociology research; thank you! 😁

[@BramowitchIII]

How can the news be fair and objective when the receiver's frame of reference isn't?

[@carsongarfield6524]

More efficiently, a 2 second video: "No."

[@darkstar223]

Lol.......So says an organisation owned by a oil billionaire

[@IAMN0TGAY]

every single news agency is extremely biased