Still, most journalism is little to do with fact (or 'non-fiction' as you originally referenced). The lamestream is mired in FICTION (and ideology), not factual analysis.
Incidentally, I do not disagree with your other more general observations about the hubristic choices offered (imposed, really ...) by the media elites.
I do not disagree with your other more general observations about the hubristic choices offered (imposed, really ...) by the media elites . . .
I agree that "fictive" is definitely part of the story. But that begs the question, "Why is the profession of journalism anticonservative?" My best answer is that "objective truth-telling" is the sizzle journalism sells, and novelty and fear is the steak that journalism actually delivers.
That "sizzle" has a powerful allure; I refer you to the story of the Sirens in The Odessy. Ulysses was tempted by them "to know all"--and would have sailed his vessel to certain destruction in pursuit of such knowledge, had he not previously put wax in his crew's ears and had himself lashed to the mast.
The power of that allure, and the imprimatur which the federal government (in the form of the FCC) places on broadcast journalism, combine to make us think that those "choices" are "imposed on us."