The City of Prince George, B.C., has been selected as the municipal winner of the 2022 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy.
After the 2016 election of Donald Trump and the 2020 murder of George Floyd, many journalists argued that the press needed to abandon its traditional commitment to objectivity. Electrifying a decades-old skepticism of objectivity with a sense of political crisis, these journalists charged that while objectivity purports to be about neutrality, it really only serves power.