In other words, he accuses Milewski of not giving the government a fair shake. CBC pulled Milewski off of the APEC story, and now Donolo s complaint will be reviewed by the CBC s ombudsman, which isn t surprising since CBC is a huge, government-funded bureaucracy. But reporters should answer to only three authorities - their conscience, their editor, or a courtroom judge. Instead, the quality of Milewsky s work will be decided by a process . Politicians and government bureaucrats love process.
Process enables the truth to be obscured and even abandoned in favour of rules and technicalities.
Politicians and bureaucrats love whatever obscures the truth, because the truth rarely looks good on them. Process has found its way into virtually every part of society including journalism, partly because government has slithered its way into so much of our daily lives. Much of the news today is process journalism, which is simply printing two sides opposing statements, giving them equal ink or air time. It s uninsightful, lazy, mediocrity produced in the name of promoting fairness . Any monkey or government clerk with a web press can produce seventy-five per cent of what s passed off as news.