Journalistic thoughts

I was reading this link from instapundit and puked in my mouth. It is a defense of Hugh Hewitt's style of journalism which is "subjective" journalism. Yay, I am glad that you have figured out no one can ever be completely objective. So what's the solution? Don't try at all they say! Good point.
It reminds me of this story where kids in school swear so they will let them swear only 5 times a lesson. If small percentage of people are going to do something bad, then why not make it ok for everyone so that they can do the bad thing the right way?If perfection can't be reached, don't strive for it.
That is the moral of Hugh Hewitt and his supporters apparently. It is a sad day when the goal to be objective when dealing with matters of truth-telling is thrown out the window. If Hewitt advocates just some subjective reporting, then ok I don't give a shit. But if he advocates that everyone does it his way, I will turn in my digital voice recorder and notepad right this second.
Holy shit people, we want to be as clear about the truth as we can. We don't need a bunch of propaganda outfits controlling our information day in and day out.
On the the other side of the coin though, people need to accept criticism when they are being biased. I read a "tips for journalists" the other day where a guy says he no longer teaches his journalism students to pay attention to complaints about bias. He claims the issue is so politically charged that it is useless. Well that's healthy then, isn't it? Maybe people have a point you don't want to hear buddy and that is a pretty good excuse to not have to hear it.

Objective truth telling and important journalism, please live on.