It what possibly helps explain the imbroglio over Rolling Stone’s University of Virginia “gang rape story” for which it has since apologized, back in 2006 its managing editor had remarked “We’ll write what we believe.”
“I want to do stuff that’s biased,” Will Dana said in a speech at Middlebury College titled “The Myth of Fair and Balanced: A Defense of Biased Reporting.”
According to a writeup in the Middlebury Campus, Dana put forth a common and compelling critique of contemporary standards under which journalists “worship the grail of objectivity” and “play twister to hide their bias,” said Dana, a 1985 graduate of Middlebury.
“I want to do stuff that’s biased.” He merely meant journalism driven by a worldview, as with Eric Schlosser’s 1998 Rolling Stone expose, “Fast-Food Nation” — a series that upended thinking on the world’s McDonald’s and the like. “We can become the seed pod for great things,” said Dana of such work.
Though the editor said his publication would endeavor to give both sides of a story, he said, “we’ll write what we believe,” according to the Middlebury Campus.
h/t to Instapundit.
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