> I’ve always viewed journalism as a career as something very, very similar to a hated defense attorney. This is an interesting analogy but an inversion of how

> I’ve always viewed journalism as a career as something very, very similar to a hated defense attorney. This is an interesting analogy but an inversion of how I see it. The defense attorney must abandon their natural biases and behave as if they had an unconditional and irrational faith in their client's innocence. This does not come naturally. The Economist article, tends to conflate objectivity with balance. I see objectivity as critical thinking coupled with tricks to overcome our innate biases. Objectivity is what a judge is supposed to do, to further the original analogy.