Westin makes a good point, but I regret to say that people will not be satisfied with facts instead of opinion. They'll continue to want both. I prefer facts and objective reporting but there is less that I trust these days because of editorial and journalistic bias. I also believe that thinking people can discern fact and opinion. Westin would do well not to sell Americans short.
Witness the NY Times stories on Monday and Tuesday about explosives missing in Iraq and the failure of reporters and editors to make mention of the 'fact' or at least the strong possibility that they went missing before the U.S. got to the ordnance depot, opting instead to leave the impression that the explosives were very recently missing. That is NOT objective reporting.
Meanwhile, whether in collusion or not, (I use innuendo because this is an opinion blog; I'm not a news reporter) the Democrats and Kerry hopped on this as a campaign issue and may very well wind up wrong. Sponsoring innuendo as truth is the same as lying. Kerry has really put his foot in it this time without knowing the facts, as did he and the Democrats at the time of the CBS forged documents fiasco. He has once more demonstrated he is unfit to be President.
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