SD War College discusses how today's Argus Leader blends liberal opinion into its "news." The liberalism of the "old Argus" seems to be very similar to the liberalism of the "new Argus."
Now, this is coming off of a front page article in one of the subsections which is blending opinion and news in a mish-mash where the reader can't identify which is which. It's a section front page article - Is it opinion? It looks like it's being portrayed as news? So, what is it?
If I were to give a name to this melding of opinion and news in the halls of traditional journalism without differentiation, I'd join the two words themselves and call it "ooze."
Yes, yes. Before you start, I know it's similar to the things we do on our weblogs and websites. But the difference is that most of us who are on-line are not pretending to be South Dakota's major public outlet of news in print. And we're pretty clear about what is being taken as reported fact and what is simply opinion.
As for me, I editorialize on news and what limited reporting I do is to report happenings in a gossipy fashion. Occasionally, I do some researched hard reporting.
But the Argus deems themselves THE source of South Dakota news. That's news, as in researched, and reported in a detatched and factual manner.
My gripe is in this instance, when you can't tell what is news and what isn't news, but opinion.
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