Once there is a balance, however, readers will be much more informed as to the true sources of the articles and will be able to draw their own conclusions. It would be much more open for the Star Tribune to say they support LRT because they stand to profit. Furthermore, it would be much easier to try to get people with differing viewpoints, because they would all be out in the open. Objective journalism has been hawked by ancient professors in dimly lit classrooms for too long now. The glitter on this legend has been worn away long ago, leaving a substrate of lead as its only decoration.
Human fallibility is too obvious to ignore any longer.
It is time for the dangerous notion of objective reporting to be purged from the minds of the masses and the writers to be set free. Nathan Hunstad's column appears on alternate Fridays. The Minnesota Daily, all rights reserved.