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>>...It is imperative that journalists have real, hard and necessary conversations about language (calling a spade a spade and a liar a liar), recognize the harsh limitations of “objectivity” and work to accurately reflect the communities they serve...<<

I am a little troubled by the ease in which the author stepped over the line from journalism to advocacy. Objectivity is not simply a journalistic convention. It is the foundation of empirical knowledge, upon which all sciences and social sciences rely for validity. While it has become fashionable in academic circles to dismiss the value of positivist certainty in favor of a constructivist relativism, whereby truth is simply viewed as opinion, "reflecting the communities they serve," we go down this road at our peril, since it ends in a Hobbesian authoritarianism, where might, alone, determines who and what is right.

The value of journalism is in avoiding assumptions of truth and falsehood, seeking instead to fully and fairly relate those assertions of fact which may be learned from others, to inform the electorate, which may not be omniscient, but as asserted by John Milton nearly four centuries ago, with the guidance of objective reporting, may be permitted to make a reasoned effort at choosing what is right.