Honest journalism—nonpartisan, evenhanded, and striving toward objectivity—faces resistance within many corners of the media and other powerful institutions. According to a Pew survey, 55% of journalists believe that every side does not always deserve equal coverage. That portion rises to 63% among younger members of the profession. Major papers of record have questioned objectivity as a guiding principle, while embracing what has been called “post-journalism”—an advocacy-driven approach to reporting the news. NGOs, Big Tech, and political actors have worked in concert to censor independent reporters and news outlets.
These trends do not represent a constructive evolution in American journalism. Rather, they are a dangerous development that threatens the underpinning of democracy: namely, an electorate informed by independent and politically neutral news gatherers.
RealClearInvestigations (RCI), a reporting project working in partnership with RealClearPolitics, is rising to the occasion. RCI hews to old-school follow-and-report-the-facts journalism—the kind you used to encounter when you opened the morning newspaper.
