> Now, I don’t know about you, but I have three reactions to this:
Now, I don’t know about you, but I have one reaction to this: you're a newspaper reporter, Jeff. State the facts; I don't care about your opinion.
> The news used to tell you that something happened, then you had to decide what you thought about it.
> Now the news tells you how to think about something, and you have to decided if it even happened.
Having trust in something does not make it true
It’s a great/terrifying book and I’ve personally witnessed the results
Edit: To clarify, I point this out because there was a good 80ish years where journalism was less about grabbing and holding your attention and more about maintaining subscribers. Since it was very hard to maintain subscribers if you just kept throwing click bait and half-accurate news at them, it helped improve their accuracy.
Some quality newspapers will separate the two, having a section for reporting facts, and a section for opinions, but many papers don't have this strict distinction.
And to be honest, the fact that some Google subcontractor fired an employee isn't really the kind of world-shattering news that warrants a strictly fact based objective news article that everyone must read about. It's just not important enough. You can however use it as a hook for an opinion piece, like this reporter has done.
I believe it was a young Edward R Murrow who submitted copy to his editor who later returned it, saying, "Cut the sauce, Murrow!"
Finding something palatable to read these days is quite the struggle.