The crux of the problem
The media feel pressured to force-fit the news into a "fair and balanced" straightjacket. Last I knew, objectivity meant reporting the truth and letting the chips fall where they may.
In Wars, Quest for Media Balance Is Also a Battlefield - New York Times
Wars in the modern media age often come complete with their own journalistic difficulties.Technorati Tags: fair, balanced, news, media, bias, truth
Although doctored and stage-managed photographs out of Lebanon garnered their share of headlines last week, they are just a part of a larger, underlying issue: the role of images in fairly portraying the conflict incited nearly five weeks ago by Hezbollah’s raid into Israel and its kidnapping of two soldiers.
Particularly vexing for many American news organizations is the struggle to determine how and in what proportion images of civilian dead and injured should be displayed in their coverage, when one side’s casualties greatly surpass the other.
