Ask any New Zealander living in Australia, and you’ll hear how we learn to shrug off lame jokes about “fush’n’chups” and sheep bothering. What we rarely point out in return is that Australians, for all their relative wealth, have an unevolved appreciation of women in power. This blogger spent a Read more…
At a Reuters editorial management course in Singapore around 1997, the attendees were being reminded about the principle of objectivity in journalism. To play his or her stated role in a global news organisation, the journalist had to be a perennial outsider with no affiliation.
At that point, the trainer theatrically looked over his shoulder as if to see that no-one else was listening and leaned in toward the class, sotto voce: “Actually, that’s not really true. We aren’t objective at all. Implicit in everything we write is an acceptance of the Washington Consensus.” (more…)