The Elusive Search for “Objectivity” in Reporting on the Yemen War

Many media organizations so value the “view from nowhere” that they drive for a form of “objectivity” that can better be read as “politically inoffensive” reporting that is anything but “objective.”

by Peter Salisbury

“So what is going on there exactly?,” a friend in New York asked of the civil war in Yemen.

I pause. “Well, I think, it depends on your point of view. I can tell you what I think is going on. But others might disagree.”

Is a “view from nowhere” really possible? Are human beings ever actually capable of seeing the same thing through diffe…