To: P.J. O'Connell and others interested in discussing objectivity

 

It is my opinion that objectivity along with subjectivity has outlived

their usefulness.  The concepts were derived from a discredited notion of

science called positivism.  It has been replaced with the notion that

human beings represent the world according to their identities - cultural,

class, gender, etc.  These representations are neither subjective or

objective but rather a reflection of our ideologies.  Objectivity according to

marxists, feminists, and other critics, a tool of the establishment in that

if you can get the public to believe that news is objective you can

control what people know.  From my perspective the last place where people

actually discuss objectivity is among journalist and documentary filmmakers

the rest of the intellectual community no longer considers it an

interesting or worh

worthy concept.

 

Jay Ruby, Temple