Free republic is about as close to journalism as you are gonna get in America anymore.
When you say "close" to journalism, you are implying a high standard that has never been true of journalism. Journalism is reporting on the events that the reporter chooses to discuss. It is not the reporting of all facts, or even all known facts about what happened recently. That would be impossible.It is not objective reporting, because objectivity is unnatural and can only be attempted - and that, only if you are willing to admit that you are only trying, without claiming that you actually are objective. No one can know that he is objective;The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .Any claim of actual objectivity is proof that one is not even trying to be objective.It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity,
and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith
When you say "close" to journalism, you are implying a high standard that has never been true of journalism. Journalism is reporting on the events that the reporter chooses to discuss. It is not the reporting of all facts, or even all known facts about what happened recently. That would be impossible.It is not objective reporting, because objectivity is unnatural and can only be attempted - and that, only if you are willing to admit that you are only trying, without claiming that you actually are objective. No one can know that he is objective;The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .Any claim of actual objectivity is proof that one is not even trying to be objective.It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity,
and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith
When you say "close" to journalism, you are implying a high standard that has never been true of journalism. Journalism is reporting on the events that the reporter chooses to discuss. It is not the reporting of all facts, or even all known facts about what happened recently. That would be impossible.It is not objective reporting, because objectivity is unnatural and can only be attempted - and that, only if you are willing to admit that you are only trying, without claiming that you actually are objective. No one can know that he is objective;The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .Any claim of actual objectivity is proof that one is not even trying to be objective.It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity,
and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith