----------The popularity of Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck on CNN alone illustrates how opinion has become more important on cable news. A general public that laughs at Jon Stewart's take on the news has probably become accustomed to a point of view, said Mark Jurkowitz, associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
"I wonder, candidly, how many people parse the ethics on this anymore, other than people in the industry," he said.
Clearly there's a taste in America for both a partisan and nonpartisan press.
The middle ground is where it gets tricky.
Update: Salon's Exec Ed Joan Walsh excoriates the A.P. reporter for his "hit job" on Olbermann. Her points, well taken, make for interesting reading.
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Update II: Glenn Greenwald has his take:
What turns a "journalist" into an ideologue these days is excess criticism of the prevailing Beltway power structure and its most revered and important figures. That -- and only that -- is what distinguishes Olbermann from those considered to be "real journalists." The function of modern "journalists" is to serve as spokespeople for the Beltway system, to defend it, to adhere strictly to its rules of conduct.
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