A young, beefy Atlanta media figure stood in the well of his city’s council chambers on February 1, held a sheet of paper with lyrics on it up to his face, and sang a rap song.
Cardinale’s 80-second performance made it to YouTube, but it did not go viral. He had better luck a few days later.
Once posted on Nouaree’s blog, this heresy did go viral. Cardinale’s language is a little muddled, positing a tension between a “progressive perspective” and belief in “objective reality” as if they were simply opposing choices. Nonetheless, his point is clear enough: Springston made the mistake of striving for objectivity when objectivity doesn’t exist.
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
John Marsh, who runs a PR firm in Atlanta, admitted he’d lived there for 23 years and “never heard of APN until today.” That said, he had to agree with Cardinale. “His is a philosophical approach, to be sure,” Marsh wrote, “but then again, isn’t ‘objectivity’ in newsgathering and reporting a philosophical, learned approach? And haven’t reporters at outlets that subscribe to the philosophy of objectivity been fired for not being objective? I don’t think this episode in any way threatens journalism as we know it.”
But if there’s no objective reality, there are no basic facts. I began to fear that Cardinale was less of a philosopher than we’d made him out to be, and that what he actually thinks is simply that there’s more reality than the MSM choose to acknowledge. That’s liberation theology but it’s not heresy.
Were there others? I asked. Cardinale said, “I got one from a marine or someone in the U.S. military that said at the end, ‘Please die.’”
