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Old 03-21-2020, 02:34 PM   #48
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Objective journalism started to die with the invention of 24/7 news. It's been long-gone for years. S


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Originally Posted by garysanfran View Post
When I worked on the City desk at The Globe (then owned by the Taylor family), one of my jobs was to get photos needed to accompany stories.

I was not a fan of Richard Nixon and always made it a point to chose a very unflattering photo...So, even subtle editorializing exists.

As far as editorial fact checking? It was true when I worked there. Three levels of attribution before publication. Not now. Too much competition to get it to print to research facts. A lot of the news today is based on nonfactual reporting elsewhere and then regurgitated.

Mostly newspapers are biased in what it is they chose NOT to report.
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