Thank you, Dom, for sharing this event and your true investigative journalism. I was struck by your comment about objectivity. Here's my take: "Slants are okay." Investigative journalism having a motivation - conservative, progressive, libertarian, anarchist - does not mean that the reporting is not valuable. As long as the reporting is based upon journalist investigation, facts and reporting customs and standards that provided this country with almost 250 years of the Fourth Estate, the resulting reporting is adding to the discourse necessary for democracy and civil society. It is so tragic that our Information Age has led to the debasement of "journalism," so that this term is now used by those engaged in publishing baseless or false content creation, infotainment, and propaganda. Anyone with an Internet connection can now engage in publishing and labeling themselves "journalist," although clearly not engaged in one of our most honored and necessary professions. So keep doing "the good work" of true journalism by keeping our citizenry informed, even about sacred cows - on the left and on the right - that need exposure to the light. And a slant - based upon journalistic standards - is fine with me.
Thank you, Dom, for sharing this event and your true investigative journalism. I was struck by your comment about objectivity. Here's my take: "Slants are okay." Investigative journalism having a motivation - conservative, progressive, libertarian, anarchist - does not mean that the reporting is not valuable. As long as the reporting is based upon journalist investigation, facts and reporting customs and standards that provided this country with almost 250 years of the Fourth Estate, the resulting reporting is adding to the discourse necessary for democracy and civil society. It is so tragic that our Information Age has led to the debasement of "journalism," so that this term is now used by those engaged in publishing baseless or false content creation, infotainment, and propaganda. Anyone with an Internet connection can now engage in publishing and labeling themselves "journalist," although clearly not engaged in one of our most honored and necessary professions. So keep doing "the good work" of true journalism by keeping our citizenry informed, even about sacred cows - on the left and on the right - that need exposure to the light. And a slant - based upon journalistic standards - is fine with me.