Craig Gillette wrote:
You have to decide if the \"journalist\" is acting as a reporter or is dealing in \"opinion.\" If they are pretending to \"report\" or \"document\" and they manipulate the view so that it creates a false impression, that\'s unethical. If the effort is \"editorial\" in that it\'s trying to create or motivate opinions, then manipulation is useful. One of the problems facing much of the \"news\" media these days is that they have failed to keep opinion out of news.
The Economist is a known editorial magazine; it does not purport to merely report the news. The stated goal of the Economist is to create and motivate opinions. This has been their goal for many decades now.
Jul 12, 2010 at 09:39 AM
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