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Host, I'll agree that documenting wrongdoing by John D. Rockefeller was a worthy journalistic pursuit. But that type of thing is not the only worthy journalistic pursuit.
I have been working for a while on a blog post about how the way we see the world gets skewed by the concept of "newsworthiness." I'll have to finish it.
You seem to be promoting a somewhat different principle, that all journalism should be advocacy journalism. There is a respectable school of thought that agrees with you. The argument goes that all journalists have a point of view, but that they try to suppress it, wtih the result that their biases get hidden and only become apparent over time and with exposure, which damages their credibility -- whereas if they were upfront about their biases from the get-go, readers could evaluate credibility without wondering about hidden agendas. Do you really think the country would be better served with an avowedly partisan press? And when you answer that question, bear in mind that not all journalists will share your views, so the partisanship will go both ways.
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