October 15, 2006

Drawing a Clearer Line Between News and Opinion - New York Times

Drawing a Clearer Line Between News and Opinion - New York Times

The Public Editor at the NY Times describes the hand-wringing underway at the newspaper to draw a line between news and opinion.

It's impossible for reporters and editors not to have personal opinions and biases that creep into straight news. Perhaps this is most invisible in the decisions of what news to cover or what to exclude from news articles.

What gripes me most about the Times is the overwhelming leftist bias (with the exception of David Brooks and a few others) that permeates the opinion pages and cannot help but creep into news reporting/editing. Their hoped for 'bright line' becomes more blurred as time passes.

The newspaper continues its decline in relevance to general readers and perhaps will find its home exclusively with liberals. "All the news that's fit to print." is a motto I no longer believe.

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