The CJR is a journal about the press; its writers' opinion that a free press is vital is nailed on. I don't read it as trying to push an agenda (which I suspec

The CJR is a journal about the press; its writers' opinion that a free press is vital is nailed on. I don't read it as trying to push an agenda (which I suspect the author believes is shared by her readers) but to explore the tensions between America's tradition of a viciously partisan press and its 20th Century ethic of studied neutrality, and of tensions between the press as abstract apple-pie-and-motherhood and distrust of actual publications (the archivist's selection of Fox over other media, and the observation that even in their heyday there was commercial pressure for small town press not to do investigative reporting). If you find arguments about the state of the press distasteful I can see why you wouldn't like the last section. But I found it quite interesting.