Also ballots on same-sex marriage, education and others. I can't help but wonder if the shift in the public palate from mainstream news to essays is a leap between facts and meaning. Maybe it is a symptom that we are hungering for something different. Part of the public outcry about journos is the perception that journos spindoctor their stories. Journos weave facts into stories and then endeavour to pass them off as truth.
Readers are conscious they are being fed one perspective, but it is being sold as 'truth'.
I was told that the reader wants something authoritative. I dutifully changed the style of the piece from opinion to fact. I wonder if there has been a generational shift in the way we relate to information. It was a modest endeavour to make a contribution to a public discourse. People could take my attempt to make sense of the facts, or leave it.