Obviously, proposing that we need more independent perspectives does not mean that I think journalists should abandon their professional ethics, or that there's

Obviously, proposing that we need more independent perspectives does not mean that I think journalists should abandon their professional ethics, or that there's no distinction between news reporting and opinion pieces. Journalists still need to report the facts, and in that sense, we should expect them to be objective. Unfortunately, reporting the news is usually not like reading a clock. Composing any article involves making a variety of decisions in a variety of circumstances -- where to be, who to quote, which connections to prior events to draw, how much background to report -- that all affect what goes into an article and what does not, and which give it an inherent perspective. Two journalists might write articles which consist entirely of reporting objective facts, yet provide quite different narratives about the same events. The demand for "objectivity" becomes unreasonable when it asks for even this curational perspective to be eliminated. There is plenty of room for a greater number of independent perspectives in our news sources, even within journalists' obligations to objectivity and "straight reporting."