主流媒体能做到公正公平吗(节选)

Is the Mainstream Media Fair and Balanced?(Excerpt)

[1]我先来解释一下当今有关媒体争论中经常抛出来的三个术语。第一个是客观性。客观性意味着在报道新闻时不能带有任何偏向一方的政治观点或直觉。当然,做到完全客观对任何人来说都很难企及,不过可以接近客观。第二个是公正性。公正性承认在新闻报道中可能会有一些倾向,但要求记者诚实,不能误导那些持不同己见的人。

[1]Let me begin by defining three terms that are thrown around in debates about the media today.The first is objectivity,which means reporting the news with none of your own political views or instincts slanting the story one way or another.Perfect objectivity is pretty hard for anyone to attain,but it can be approximated.Then there's fairness.Fairness concedes that there may be some slant in a news story,but requires that a reporter will be honest and not misleading with regard to those with whom he disagrees.