Of Course 'Objective' Newswriting Can Transmit An Opinion!

We lose something when we pretend that listing a story as 'news' means it isn't underpinned by some specific agenda

Last week I wrote about a USA Today story that seemed to be communicating the argument that suspects in the breach of the U.S. Capitol shouldn’t be allowed to crowdfund their criminal defenses online. My piece also covered how the online conversation about this article among media types neglected discussion of its (rather radical) argument and instead f…