[Lyapunov_Lover]

It's strange how people seem to think that Good Old Fashioned Journalism was objective and reliable. Bias is certainly not a modern invention. This bizarre nostalgia for an era that never actually existed seems to be pretty common, similar to the classic complaint that kids today are lazy and immoral.

Anton Chekhov was an activist journalist 160 years ago. This is not at all a novel phenomenon. And news editors who sought to defend the status quo would, of course, be just as biased as activists—they would amplify or suppress narratives according to their ideological allegiances.

The news industry has never been objective and pure. It has always been subjective and biased.

[bad_username]

If a phenomenon is old it does not mean it's good.

If journalism isn't completely objective (or even if it can't be 100% objective) doesn't mean journalists should not be trying to be objective.

Code always had bugs - should we give up fixing them?

I am all for journalist activism if it's clearly marked as such. Disguising activism as news is the biggest sin that the modern media have committed and are committing.

[KingOfCoders]

"It was also opinionated"

vs.

"It's strange how people seem to think that Good Old Fashioned Journalism was objective"