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I go back to my high school journalism class and the arguments I had with my teacher of whether or not a single word in my article was meant to sway the reader. She was adamant that every single word in every news article be totally neutral.

Apparently, a lot of today's "journalists" didn't get the memo. Every article I read, reads like a blog post or an editorial.

My old journalism teacher would have had a stroke.

Nine-tenths of what I’m reading from the MSM consists of editorials masquerading as hard news.
Loaded with negative descriptive adjectives and adverbs. No evidence of any investigative techniques, balanced skepticism, or attempt to allow readers to make up their own minds.
No apparent source, named or unnamed; when carefully parsed by a discerning reader, it becomes apparent that the only “source” is the slobbering, enraged reporter himself, backed up in an echo-chamber by his fellow “reporters.”
In short, they have utterly abandoned any pretense of objectivity, and have made it clear they do NOT serve their readers; in fact, it is clear they have nought but disdain for their readers, whom they consider sub-intelligent morons incapable of rational thought.
Their reportage is nothing more than “I’ve got access to the government, and you don’t. Here’s what I think; you morons WILL think what I TELL you to think.”