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I say yes, but my background is journalism, so I'm probably jaded. The MSM---and in this case, I'm talking about newspapers---is saveable ONLY if they decide to become honest in their news reporting. My big beef with this piece was that it demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt that the wall between the editorial department and news department no longer existed at the Globe. If this piece had appeared on the editorial page, I'd have no problem with it---it's opinion.

By being honest, I mean build that wall back up between editorial and news. And don't pretend to be objective---in journalism, there's no such thing as objectivity. Every piece has an angle, or a slant, so it can't, by nature, be objective. As long as the news consumer knows the paper has a particular slant, there's nothing wrong with non-objectivity. The paper should be upfront about it---too many people accept what they read in the paper to be unquestionable fact.