>It doesn't seem fair to look at modern news conglomerates (which typically combine news and opinion) and complain that the non-news content bismirches the jour

>It doesn't seem fair to look at modern news conglomerates (which typically combine news and opinion) and complain that the non-news content bismirches the journalism. And it's just this attitude that has caused the era of fake news. > A fair shot would be saying "I do not feel like this article is appropriately declared as opinion." Which, maybe. But I think that's debatable, and the NYT certainly differentiates a helluva lot better than Fox News and MSNBC. This is exactly the point. Fox News and MSNBC are some of the worst offenders - this does not excuse the NYT from it. Also I remind people that journalism is not just reporting of facts. If it was all newspapers would be lists of factoids. "Journalism, the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary" This is very clearly journalism.