Uh, guys? It's called writing.
TVNewser quotes the president of CBS News:
We have to figure out a way to incorporate point of view, even while protecting the notion of fair-minded journalism dedicated to accurate reporting without fear or favor. Put another way, point of view and even bias have to be something we report on even while we fight to recognize it in our own reporting and story selection.
But isn't point of view inherent in any story, even a news story? Think of Murrow on the rooftops of London; think of Kurt Anderson in Baghdad for the New Yorker. You have people seeing and describing events in English -- that's point of view. That the head of a news organization forgets what real reporting is shows the poverty of the mainstream media.
I think he is tacitly acknowledging the fact that modern news is sterile, that reporters striving for objectivity have instead removed anything from their reporting that could identify it as having been contructed by a human being. Could this be why newsbots like Google News, Ananova and others have been successful? People can't tell the difference between their constructs and actual human labor.
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