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Originally posted by taog
Maybe it's because most reporters these days have taken law in school, and their minds work like a lawyers. They have a point, and they do everything and anything to prove that point, including leaving out key facts, or distorting the current ones, and even, sometimes, lying about them.
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I'm not sure where you've got your facts from, but I take that as an affront to my professional integrity. I don't know anyone who distorts or lies about facts to prove their own point. If you do you get called on it, and if you keep doing it, soon enough your integrity is in the crapper and nobody trusts you anymore. Trust is vital to journalism, so it makes no sense to lie. Look at Jayson Blair. It blows up in your face eventually.
I'll admit most news outlets have an agenda, but that's hardly a secret. Individual reporters continually tread the line between reportage and comment and they cross it at their peril. Politicking is likely to have come from an editor.
Don't say 'most' reporters when you haven't got facts to back that up.