I know I'm a few days late, but your post on the media tickled the reflexes. A few years ago, when I was still at Trinity, I had a professor who was finishing his doctorate at Northwestern's School of Divinity. As you may or may not know, Northwestern is well-known for its journalism school.

Anyway, back then, I got into a conversation with Peter (my prof), and he told me that the entire journalistic school of ethics has changed. During the modern era, they were actually deluded enough to believe that they could be genuinely objective with no point of view. But in the aftermath of the postmodern cultural shift, schools started changing. Now, journalism schools teach that it is not possible to be objective. So instead of teaching the detached journalist ethos," they teach something called "Advocacy Journalism" (The name might be slightly off, but I have captured the idea). In short, advocacy journalism suggests that it is impossible to be objective, so the journalists job is to advocate for the underserved, underpriviliged, etc... Again, the exact terminology is off, but this is a definite shift in the journalistic paradigm.