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Abstract Lewis Raven Wallace was fired from Marketplace for questioning the mainstream media's conception of journalistic neutrality. He developed his critique in his 2019 book, The View From Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, a podcast of the same name, and in several ancillary products. Wallace concludes that “objectivity is a false ideal that upholds the status quo”, and news judgement has less to do with objective criteria than with “who controls the narrative, whose narratives matter, and how the appearance of mattering is created in a society rife with entr...

>> self-promotional stunt. >> self-promotional stunt. all i can say is that's not true. i mean i didn't know what was going to happen. i didn't know what the fallout was going to be. i knew that it was something that i had to say. i mean i think you go into journalism, i don't know if this is a kninaive of me to think journalists should try to remain as objective as possible. i think i -- you know, it's about disseminating the truth and certainly there's a discussion that can be had on all ends of the spectrum of journalistic objectivity, but for me, when it was so, so skewed and so far from b...