I always admire The Economist's willingness to have political ideals, be explicit and unapologetic about them and to be pragmatic about them. It's an attitude that should be standard in the media.
Oh yeah. Not only is journalistic objectivity utterly nonexistent but the pretense thereof is angering and ultimately damaging to the quality and value of media.
I always wondered if that was because the British media are full of students of English, while the US is stuck with students of journalism (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity). The latter seems to correlate with a delusion of grandeur.
I disagree, whereas it is well-known that sections of the media has a bias which colours it's coverage, it is never explicitly declared and it also tends towards the dogmatic. I would be interested to see an example where this isn't the case.
