… which has produced genuine debates about whether traditional objectivity is possible or useful. Some audiences crave obvious resistance against the Republican regime.

Neutrality is not objectivity, when shit is genuinely just awful. Any objective reading of day-to-day events in The Idiot’s regime amounted to screaming about how we just saw him commit another high crime out loud in public. Ambiguity was fucking scarce. Objectivity and professionalism in these circumstances would mean using The Idiot’s given name, not calling his loyalty-driven autocracy a regime, and trying to politely phrase how everything he just said is factually wrong and clearly bigoted and also evidence for the prosecution.

If media wasn’t influential, these bastards would not spend so much effort controlling it.