Its a bit odd that you crossed out the word foreign, as in 'foreign ownership'.
. . . or is it odd that you see the need to insert "foreign" in that sentence?My point is that ownership/management of a news organization doesn't have to be foreign to be an issue. Time was, when papers openly espoused political perspectives - not just in a ghetto called the "editorial page" but generally. And since
Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklinthat is actually the only honest position for a journalist to take. That is being honest about the fact that you nor anyone else can print only part of the truth (and no one can print the utter, entire whole truth) and still be sure that he has been objective in what he left out. It follows from that that Rush Limbaugh, who openly projects a conservative perspective, is a fairer journalist than Katie Couric - or anyone else who claims to be objective - is.When papers started separate editorial pages, that was the start of the arrogant conceit that opinion was segregated to a ghetto, and the whole remainder of the paper was "objective." It is not; in general objectivity would require wisdom - and the business of short-deadline writing of bad news is not the obvious place to find a font of wisdom.
When foreigners are advocating a policy in Texas which you think unwise for Texas, it certainly is fair to point out that those foreigners will no bear the ill effects of the policy they advocate. My point was that you don't have to be a foreigner to advocate bad policy. American journalists and American liberals do it every day.