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Get an old American history book which shows the political cartoons which ran about Lincoln during the Civil War. They were rabidly anti-Lincoln in some cases (as I recall) showing him as a monkey or ape. But, to the best of my knowledge they never said that they were objective.

The situation that we have now is that newspapers claim they are "objective" when they are just as rabid, in fact some of them froth at the mouth at the mention of President Bush.

Another situation which has evolved during the past 40 to 60 years, is that the journalist (although holding a 4 year college degree) have escaped being educated. It is as if they actually tried not to learn anything. As an example, recall the questions that the correspondents asked General Schwartzkopf at his briefings. They were less than infantile, they showed no grasp of the subject materials. Now, it is people of this caliber which try to present their view point to us in today's newspapers.

Journalists today are ignorant and incapable of reasonable, original thought. Most of them entered journalism with the idea of emulating Woodward/Bernstein, and can only regurgitate the statements of self-styled "experts" who represent the journalist's point of view. There is no attempt to research or study an issue, just the liberal party line. Corrections and outright retractions of printed "facts" are buried on page 54 of Section E.

For example, on May 5th, ABC Radio News was reporting that Americans should consider Cinco De Mayo important because if the Mexicans had not been fighting the French invaders for their freedom, the French would have sent soldiers to help the Confederacy. As any student of history knows, this is absolutely false. Rather, if it were not for the Civil War, Napolean III would have not dared violate the Monroe Doctrine by setting up a proxy government in Mexico. This outright lie was probably provided by a pro-immigration group such as MECHA to a gullible reporter.