“The personal and opinionated nature of Internet
writing has rubbed off on the more traditional style of newswriting. The new
apparent standards are a big jump away from ‘objectivity’ as practiced—or at
least aspired to—by American newspapers for the past century. They are a move
toward the model more common in Britain and elsewhere, where bias is allowed to
show and readers are allowed, indeed required, to discount accordingly.” —
Michael
Kinsley, “Donald Trump and the Limits of Data Journalism,” Vanity Fair,
September 2016
This trend has accelerated, as with so much else, in
the aftermath of the election of 2016. I do not regard it as a plus for either
the craft or perception of American journalism.
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