{"id":10598,"date":"2011-12-22T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10598"},"modified":"2011-12-22T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:02:45","slug":"the-view-from-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10598","title":{"rendered":"The View from Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressthink.org\/2010\/11\/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers\/\">The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In pro journalism, American style, the View from Nowhere is a bid for trust that advertises the viewlessness of the news producer. Frequently it places the journalist between polarized extremes, and calls that neither-nor position \u201cimpartial.\u201d Second, it\u2019s a means of defense against a style of criticism that is fully anticipated: charges of bias originating in partisan politics and the two-party system. Third: it\u2019s an attempt to secure a kind of universal legitimacy that is implicitly denied to those who stake out positions or betray a point of view. American journalists have almost a lust for the View from Nowhere because they think it has more authority than any other possible stance.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\n[I]t has unearned authority in the American press. If in doing the serious work of journalism\u2013digging, reporting, verification, mastering a beat\u2013you develop a view, expressing that view does not diminish your authority. It may even add to it. The View from Nowhere doesn\u2019t know from this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s in the context of politics, where you have two (or possibly more) opinions or ideologies.  It&#8217;s worse in science, where the rush to be in between (i.e. nowhere) means you move <em>away<\/em> from where the evidence is, and can give undeserved weight to groundless rants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers In pro journalism, American style, the View from Nowhere is a bid for trust that advertises the viewlessness of the news producer. Frequently it places the journalist between polarized extremes, and calls that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}