Objectivity

Over the past 20 plus years the line between journalist and commentator has blurred and the most recent example is from Christiane Amanpour, a lady described on Google as a British-Iranian journalist and television host, saying, “I believe in being truthful, not neutral. While human beings cannot be objective the news people have maintained over the years that they try but that is no longer the case. Many of the national news people now openly say that they are injecting their personal views into their news reports. In one way this is refreshing as we no longer have to pretend neutrality. A good case in point is NPR, a news outlet, that always maintained neutrality but many listeners had doubts. Whenever Republicans were in office they threatened to cut funding to NPR and Democrats promised to keep and increase funding and so the question comes up, did that affect the NPR view of news?