Can the media ever be impartial? | Philip Collins, Matthew Goodwin, Sophie Scott-Brown
50Philip Collins, Matthew Goodwin, and Sophie Scott-Brown discuss what impartiality means in our current media landscape.
If complete impartiality is impossible to achieve, what should be striven for instead?
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Most of us think news should be impartial. A recent worldwide poll found that 75% of people favour neutrality and claim to choose the news provider they think most in line with the truth. But many argue impartiality is not achievable and that the claim risks hiding propaganda under the guise of truth. Respected Western media outlets such as the BBC, CBS, The Times, and The Washington Post don't look impartial when viewed from Tehran, Bejing, and Moscow. Nor does their coverage of WWII look impartial if read today.
Should we conclude that all media sources inevitably carry a particular perspective and claims of impartiality are false? Would we be better off seeing all media as partisan but requiring, from their different partisan outlooks, a determination to cover events factually from their point of view? Or is impartiality still a valuable goal even if it can never be achieved?
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Join Florence Read as she hosts a debate between Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and bestselling author, Philip Collins, writer-in-chief at The Draft and contributing editor at the New Statesman, and Sophie Scott-Brown, fellow at the European Institute at the University of Oxford, on whether or not media can ever claim to be impartial.
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00:00 Introduction
00:18 Matthew Goodwin shares his view
03:20 Philip Collins shares his view
07:10 Sophie Scott-Brown shares her view
10:41 Who is evaluating truth?
11:50 Impartiality in universities
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