Hm, I expected more of the article. I did my thesis for my bachelors degree about the agenda-setting theory, with nothing really remarkable, but learned a lot i

Hm, I expected more of the article. I did my thesis for my bachelors degree about the agenda-setting theory, with nothing really remarkable, but learned a lot in the process. So here are my takes. > A new generation of journalists is questioning whether, in a hyper-partisan, digital world, objectivity is even desirable. Journalists that use their position as a way of aggressively pushing an agenda are not outliers nowadays. I'm not sure about the US, but in Spain this people reads Gramsci & Laclau and similar people, or it's familiar with their theory. When I stumble upon news that smell like propaganda I always do the same, see who wrote the piece, look at his name in social media, and 99,9% of the times is someone who's actually very partisan of his particular ideas. I've donde this with Spanish and US news with similar success, not so much with Portuguese and French (maybe cos I have a lower understanding of the environment), but still. This people is not even trying. You could argue that everyone defaults to his biases and we do a very good job of tricking ourselves but IMO there seems to be a conscious effort of framing and priming information, and as a broad patter of behavior in journalism. In my particular case, when I watch or read mainstream news, I do it almost as an anthropologic exercise, what they want people to think about? How they want people to think about it? There are so many instances of propaganda that it's not worth to filter any more. I just go to some finance, niche blogs or specialized publications when available. > And so objectivity became journalism’s new lodestar. As Lippmann put it, the journalist should “remain clear and free of his irrational, his unexamined, his unacknowledged prejudgments in observing, understanding and presenting the news.” And > A study for the API in 2018 found that 75% of Americans could easily tell news from opinion in their favoured outlet, but only 43% could on Twitter or Facebook. The problem is that people in newsrooms are perfectly aware on how news are consumed today, so they mix information and opinion in their pieces and their opt-in channels which is typically social media.