USATODAY.com – Blogs, journalism: Different factions of the write wing

USAToday: In the blogging world, anyone producing an online diary or Web site that collects commentary from around the Internet is supposed to let everyone know his or her politics. The theory: Web surfers need to know bloggers’ biases to understand their motivations. Presenting both sides of an issue in the interest of fairness isn’t required.
“Objectivity is a worthwhile objective, but it needs to be recognized that it can’t be reached,” Weinberger said.

The quip about bloggers ” [are] supposed to let everyone know his or her politics” reveals something that the USAToday journalist apparently doesn’t recognize, but most blogers do: That the separation is often extremely blurry; and the journalist himself later appended:
Mears, the old-school wire service writer, said after the breakfast that he agrees “no one can be totally objective.”
“But that doesn’t mean you can’t take your personal opinion out of a story,” he said. “This is all a testament what a different world the other bloggers are in from me.”

Well, make that ‘clarify’ instead of append; he basically still failed to separate the WAY a story is reported from the presumptions of the writer. But, the REFRESHING thing I find in bloggers is that I WANT to find people who are CONCERNED about the same things I am; I want to get additional stories to take to the table in future oppotunities to state my case(s).

But, in the case of THIS presidential race, I cannot concede that this is a matter of opinion. There is right and there is wrong; there is honesty and integrity and there is lying and duplicity; there is trust and there is betrayal; and I am not going to grant the rabid Bush supporter (or any Bush supporter) the “benefit of the doubt”, because it’s pretty clear they don’t WANT to see the truth, and will allow themselves to believe what the Bush administration and their compromising , America-idolatarizing Religious Leaders are telling them. The people who say that Bush is the “CHristian Choice” have settled for an ethical dimension of the world that is completely dimensionless, and shoves aside the lion’s share of social issues for a select , narrowly defined few of those issues.