> How about they start with "in my opinion" or some other obvious marker, and everything else should be assumed to be fact? Sadly, I think the problem is that

> How about they start with "in my opinion" or some other obvious marker, and everything else should be assumed to be fact? Sadly, I think the problem is that journalists have the same dilemmas as teachers. If you're a teacher, you're generally considered to be a teacher whether you're at work or not, so you have to uphold some arbitrary standard for public behavior 24 hours a day (i.e., make sure no photos of you being drunk while on vacation show up on something like Facebook). A "journalist" who isn't perceived as being "objective" 24 hours a day (impossible) will rightly or wrongly be criticized as having their opinions bias the work they produce.