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Comment by djoldman | Hacker News Reader

Reading Greenwald (at least lately) means to almost constantly run into phrases like:

  "Words cannot convey..."
  "one of the most stunning displays"
  "truly despotic hearings"

It is tiresome.

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I actually don't mind this.

Isn't it much more annoying when someone is pushing an agenda and pretends to be objective? At least I can relax and not get trojan-horsed by opinions.

I think a question that journalism is trying to answer is: is pursuit of objective reporting possible and/or worth it?

The dean of the Columbia Journalism School basically said it needs to be re-examined [0].

I think one can push an agenda without the over-the-top inflammatory phrases. This is probably just a pet peeve of mine.

[0]https://journalism.columbia.edu/message-j-school-community

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