Recently, Richard Grenell called out Thorsten Denkler, a German journalist and former New York City-based U.S. correspondent, for bald-faced bias:
This left wing activist posing as a reporter has a twitter feed that isn’t remotely unbiased > @thodenk.
It’s time that media editors demand reporters do actual journalism or label their content as “opinion”.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) August 2, 2022
Denkler didn’t understand what Grenell was so wound up about:
This is twitter. It’s all about opinion, right?
— Thorsten Denkler (@thodenk) August 2, 2022
This is indeed Twitter, and everyone is entitled to personal opinions. The problem is when those personal opinions are the personal opinions of journalists and cloud the objectivity that journalists are supposed to maintain when they’re doing journalism.
Lol. I’m an out partisan. I don’t pretend to be an unbiased reporter.
Don’t pretend.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) August 2, 2022
Grenell makes an excellent point. The public should have no expectation of him to be objective. The same doesn’t go for Denkler’s readers.
I never pretended to be unbiased. No one is unbiased. Not even your buddys @TuckerCarlson and @seanhannity. Hope, that’s no surprise to you.
— Thorsten Denkler (@thodenk) August 2, 2022
OK … ?
Sure. If you aren’t a reporter ruining your credibility by exposing your bias. https://t.co/bujFWO4QO4
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) August 2, 2022
Since when exactly has this law been in place that says journalists must be unbiased? https://t.co/FpuGbaSg2t
— Thorsten Denkler (@thodenk) August 2, 2022
Ah.
For when he deletes it pic.twitter.com/pfpfEUTW5t
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) August 2, 2022
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Yikes. He says the quiet part out loud. https://t.co/7vlrvNldBt
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) August 2, 2022
Denkler’s correct in that there’s no law in place requiring that journalists be unbiased. It’s just one of those things that’s supposed to be understood, you know? The public is supposed to be able to trust journalists to report the news without bringing personal opinions into it.
There is no law, just morals.
It seems you don’t possess the latter, so you’re not a journalist
Journalism is stating the FACTS, not your opinion.— Talk of Titusville 🌴🚀 (@TalkOTitusville) August 2, 2022
So @TuckerCarlson is not a Journalist. An @FoxNews is not a Media Network?
— Thorsten Denkler (@thodenk) August 2, 2022
Tucker Carlson is not a journalist, at least not at Fox News. Nor is Sean Hannity. Nor are a number of Fox News personalities. And they don’t pretend to be. That’s the difference between them and someone like Thorsten Denkler, who is also not a journalist but is not capable of admitting that.
What? Are you serious? This is exactly why no one trusts the media anymore. SMH… 🤦♂️
— Richard Tawney Jr. (@RTawneyJr) August 2, 2022
If an opinion is based on facts and not on BS then there is no reason to not trust the media.
— Thorsten Denkler (@thodenk) August 2, 2022
OK, Thor. That’s enough. We’re gonna have to stop you right there before you seriously injure yourself.
✍️uh✍️oh✍️ https://t.co/7AtZ4im0Md pic.twitter.com/ZKRsWiJiUO
— The List (@ListComesForAll) August 2, 2022
Thorsten. Dude.
Opinions? A job of a journalist is to stick to facts. Columnists give opinions. Don't like those standards? Be an activist or a columnist.
— Kyle Lamb (@kylamb8) August 2, 2022
He just told us he's an activist. 😂
— Cowboy (@EricfromMo) August 2, 2022
Just own it, Thorsten. Stop lying to yourself and embrace who you really are.
Or by all means, keep doubling down.
You've given everyone every reason to distrust you from the start, and you aren't gaining any trust. Keep digging tho I guess https://t.co/pSjwTF7MpK
— Ultra Whiskey Attack Dog (@HTownfromOregon) August 2, 2022
Makes no difference to us. At this point, we don’t trust the MSM anyway.
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