But imagine instead that, instead of cooking your food, a chef simply served you all the raw ingredients. Ignoring for the moment the possibility of food poisoning, I prefer large amounts of onion cooked or caramelized to raw. Writers can at their discretion use, respond or ignore The Fray. Making the writer's internal processes visible and opening up his study to the passers-by might be an experiment in new forms of journalism, or it might be a cultural form of vivisection, flaying and dissecting the living creature in public view. I hope this experiment succeeds and Plotz comes out of it intact.
Most people can discern bias in any article.
Don't neuter journalism by taking out all of the bias. Leave it in and stop trying to be so righteous. Michael Kinsley is editor of Slate . All rights reserved.