I come from a time when the media reported events as news. This important person said or did that. Something happened here or there. All of a sudden, editorial has become mainstream reported news. Since when has some reporter's opinion become a newsworthy reported fact? I thought the " Editorial Page " was the place for this stuff. Are there just so many reporters doing the same stories that they feel obligated to insert there own opinions and/or views within the piece to make it sell? Or do they just have an inflated view of their own importance?

This " editorialization " of the news has also led to a mountain of misinformation making it out in print and over the airwaves. When one reporter sees some information ( true or not ) that suits his own point of view, he quotes it without any verification other than he saw it some place. Then the next one quotes the first one; and so on; until the truth is left somewhere in the dust of the fast moving media train. Isn't there any code of ethics in reporting any more? I think not!

Besides the editorial leanings in the media today, the other shortcoming is that the mainstream media has begun to look more and more like tabloid journalism. You mix the twisting of facts ( or total lack of verifiable facts ) with this editorialization, add a little sensationalism; and there you have it. Mainstream = Tabloid...but that's another story, eh, editorial?

- Flint