This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed. The next blog post is Monday, May 10.
This is the obvious.
it was one of the first lessons we learned in Journalism 101—make a distinction between news and opinion. In recent years, the line has been blurred. Audiences complain, and rightly so, with what they see as the departure of objectivity in journalism.
“Whatever happened to the days of Walter Cronkite?” someone asked me at a journalism gathering in 2019, refereeing to the American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News[1] for 19 years (1962–1981). This person added:
“During the Vietnam era, Cronkite reported the news about the war each night, but we never had any idea what his own personal view was about it. Where did that type of journalism go?”
Well, especially during the 2020 US Presidential Election it became more difficult each day to tell the difference between news and opinion in the political reporting.
That is probably what has prompted The Wall Street Journal to develop a marketing strategy about the difference between News and Opinion.
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