Jorge Ramos: ‘Neutrality Is Not an Option’ for Reporters Covering Donald Trump

Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos argued in an op-ed Tuesday that reporters should abandon traditional standards of objectivity when reporting on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“It doesn’t matter who you are— a journalist, a politician or a voter— we’ll all be judged by how we responded to Donald Trump,” he argued in TIME Magazine. “Like it or not, this election is a plebiscite on the most divisive, polarizing and disrupting figure in American politics in decades. And neutrality is not an option.”

“Trump has forced journalists to revisit rules of objectivity and fairness,” he continued. “Just providing both points of view is not enough in the current presidential campaign. If a candidate is making racist and sexist remarks, we cannot hide in the principle of neutrality. That’s a false equivalence.”

Ramos, for his own part, has not bothered to hide his disdain for Trump while reporting on the candidate. Ramos was famously kicked out of an August press conference after shouting questions without being called on, the day after calling Trump “the loudest voice of intolerance, division, and hatred right now in America.”

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