His circle of friends must be mighty small.

Would it have been so hard to just say “Their marriage is none of your business” ? Could it be that there’s some entitlement at stake in the difference between “marriage” and “civil union”? Just asking; I don’t really know, but it almost seems that must be the case.

And for the record, the entirety of the Guardian is one big glorified blogorrific Op-Ed column.

While it is in a “comment slot”, I don’t think it is viable for one individual to have separate identities – as both propagandist and journalist. This is why the WSJ has a completely separate staff (including editors) for the news and editorial pages.

If the WSJ had a single staff, I would not trust it as a news source; as it is, by some measures the news pages lean more left than the NYT’s news pages.

Journalists should stick to journalism, and leave propaganda to editorialists. Otherwise you get “campaingning journalism”(sic) like the Mail or the Guardian where the editorializing begins on the front page and ends on the back cover.

I agree, but the above clip is the TV equivalent of an op-ed. It isn’t a news report and doesn’t try to be

I agree with that in general, but when a jouranist does so, he/she stops being a jouranist, and becomes a propagandist – just like Lou Dobbs and Bill Riley.

There is no such thing as truely objective journalism – any reporting carries with it some set of assumptions. However, good journalism seeks to be as objective as reasonably possible, and goes out of it’s way to seek out different perspectives.

Last week’s ratings

If I’m reading this chart correctly:

1. O’Reilly slaughters Olbermann in total viewership. However…

2. In the 25-54 age group (the one that matters to advertisers), they are practically tied.

I loved it because it’s a matter of principle.

and the man is using a passionate tone, so what? this is basically about rights, but it’s not only about rights and emotions count, the defence of human dignity is both rationally and emotionally demanding, and I always am disturbed when people avoid to take a stand by saying ‘this is not a priority, there are other more urgent problems to tackle…’