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Message: [QUOTE="supp, post: 715542, member: 702"] Right. Maybe we have unrealistic expectations. Journalism unfortunately is not a field that attracts the best and brightest anymore, not because people don't pay attention to the news media these days but because the news media still hasn't figured out how to make its nut in the Internet era. Working the college football beat at a paper that has a print edition 3 days a week can't be what Cohen or Carlson were hoping for when they enrolled at Newhouse. But I suppose if they were smarter, they would've known better back then. This seems to be a problem that a lot of young journalists have. Objectivity means presenting both sides of a story (and in news analysis rather than reportage, it means making sense of the situation after carefully weighing both sides). Unfortunately, these youngsters seem to think that objectivity means leaning on the "wrong" side of the story from most readers' perspectives to the point of distortion. [/QUOTE]