Thursday, September 29, 2005

Helping neutrality along

Journalistic neutrality aint what it used to be. Just about everywhere I looked carried the story of the doctor being reprimanded for supplying someone with lethal drugs with a headline about how he "helped" them. Now without coming down on either side of the argument I think you can see how that takes sides. Not necessarily because journalists are pro-euthanasia, tho more likely than not many are, being urban intellectuals of a certain class, but because it's a more interesting story that way. Where is the true news to be found these days? Dead and stuffed behind a radiator because it was too boring to look after. Choosing the emotionally stimulating word may be good story-writing procedure, but it certainly doesn't make for factual reporting.

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