We live in times when we are drowned in propaganda, when the media space is highly polarized and the boundaries between reporting and advocacy are blurred.

Today we have reports from protests and movements such as Black Lives Matter, Parkland Students, #MeToo and the debate whether or not reporters can and should express their opinions outside the newsroom, such as on social networks, or participate in marches, is hotter than ever. .

Today we have journalists who do activism, but we also have activists who have started to do journalism (ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Greenpeace, in Albania EcoAlbania and others).
In many newsrooms today it is believed that there are no two points of view on certain issues such as racism, exclusion, inequality, basic human rights and freedoms.

When women protest and the journalist goes out with them in the protest, has he crossed the professional goal?
When students, environmentalists, workers or marginalized communities (Roma, Egyptians, LGBTI+) take to the streets, is a journalist biased if he defends their rights?

Today's newsrooms are objectively more diverse, can there be objectivity in newsrooms with very diverse views?

What about media supported in philanthropic forms with primary agendas, should they be objective in the standard sense of the word?

Is it only the media that bends the message in certain directions, or does the audience have a stronger role in their reception?

There is a generational divide between older journalists who maintain the classic idea of ​​separating news from opinion and younger journalists; more zealous for the reconciliation of the public person with the private one.
Citizens Channel embraces Yochai Benkler's observation that: objectivity should not be understood simply as neutrality, but as a permanent action towards the truth. When the space is filled with propaganda, being neutral can help spread it.

"Every good journalist is an activist of the truth, in favor of transparency and in the name of accountability"

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