{"id":25957,"date":"2018-06-02T20:39:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25957"},"modified":"2018-06-02T20:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:47:16","slug":"anglican-journal-may-scrap-print-edition-and-editorial-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-journal-may-scrap-print-edition-and-editorial-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Journal may scrap print edition and editorial independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope it doesn\u2019t disappear altogether: less to make fun of.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"The\u00a0Anglican Journal<\/em>\u2019s print edition may be discontinued\u00a0after a \u201clengthy transition period\u201d\u00a0and its\u00a0mandate\u00a0as an editorially independent news source may be changed under possible scenarios now being considered by a working group, the Council of General Synod (CoGS) heard Friday, June 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The paper is presently editorially independent: in other words, it isn\u2019t the official voice of the church. This doesn\u2019t mean that it is unbiased, of course: it is so biased in favour of the liberal theology of the Anglican Church of Canada that discarding editorial independence would make little difference to the content and would at least be more honest. The reason for maintaining a fa\u00e7ade of independence is the yearly $596,627 subsidy<\/a> from Canadian Heritage, only granted if it maintains editorial independence.<\/p>\n

Sixty-five per cent of the 400 randomly surveyed Anglicans said they thought the\u00a0Anglican Journal\u00a0<\/em>should be \u201cthe official voice of the Anglican Church of Canada\u201d with only 35 per cent preferring that it retain its current status as \u201cAn independent, \u2018arm\u2019s length\u2019 observer of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bishops \u201cwere asked a different question, but it was a parallel question and less than 50% of bishops think that the current mandate of independence is important, and they estimate that about a third of their folks find it important. And, lo and behold, it was a third of the folks who answered the survey,\u201d said Alexander. \u201cI have the sense that bishops have their finger on the flock fairly closely.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, over half of General Synod members and about 75 per cent of diocesan editors feel the Journal\u2019s editorial independence is important, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving an independent editorial policy makes the paper more credible as a news source,\u201d Alexander quoted a respondent of the General Synod survey as having commented; \u201cAs an unofficial, and, as it were, non-partisan paper, the Journal acts as a fair dealer, offering news from a variety of perspectives,\u201d wrote another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Anglican Church of Canada has developed a neurotic dislike of all things binary: there are no definitive decisions or conclusions. It seems to me obvious that this is because the ACoC is too cowardly to take a stand, preferring obfuscation and ambivalence in the hope that no-one will notice that it no longer believes in anything of import.
\nThe fact that the ACoC is so opposed to binary decisions is a strong indicator that there must be something good about them. Musing along those lines, it occurred to me that the real world which is generally regarded as analogue in nature, may in fact be a digital creation masquerading as analogue. Rather like an analogue quartz watch whose hands don\u2019t move smoothly, but appear to at first glance. This might provide an elegant solution to Zeno\u2019s paradoxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I bet the \u201cwe\u201d mentioned below typed this on a digital computer using nasty binary logic:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re beginning to realize it\u2019s not a binary discussion\u2026 \u2018either you\u2019re an official voice, and therefore you\u2019re some kind of\u00a0Pravda<\/em>, or you\u2019re independent\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cEditorial independence and diversity of views are not necessarily yoked together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope it doesn\u2019t disappear altogether: less to make fun of. From here: The\u00a0Anglican Journal\u2019s print edition may be discontinued\u00a0after a \u201clengthy transition period\u201d\u00a0and its\u00a0mandate\u00a0as an editorially independent news source may be changed under possible scenarios now being considered by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-25957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}