I always love to see how 'opinion' and 'fact' get mixed up. Sometimes you may have 'feelings' about the truth, but sometimes there's just the truth.

If this is the typical line of thinking in journalism school, this explains quite a bit.

Is this what's happened to journalism over the last 20 years? Why did they come up with this advice for new journalists? It's horrible advice.

Journalism ≠ Blogging.

Three things:

1. Fuck that.

2. Objectivity is not real.

3. Fuck that.

"The purpose of journalism is to actively (and silently) abet the dissemination/amplification of all lies, including the lies of the powerful, i.e. the lies most damaging to a (theoretically) functioning democracy."

If I've learned one thing from Johnny Depp: journalists are all drunks.