My comment on Project Syndicate article: Can Journalists Be Activists?

It's not that Journalists shouldn't be activists. It's that they should own their activism instead of pretending to be objective.

For instance, you quote with approval from the Atlantic, “Yes, polarization is asymmetric – and conservatives are worse.” This is opinion on opinion, stated as fact.

Clearly, there is bias. But some people are so steeped in theirs that they can't tell opinion from fact. Maybe if you started your article with I believe “the Republican Party has become fully Trumpified and turned against democracy itself” (fourth paragraph) instead of stating it as a fact, you might begin to get at the truth.

But you can't, because that is your truth. Maybe it would be a better world if every news article were linked to a biography of a journalist that lists his political affiliations, the causes to which he has given money, and his list of truths.

They are that already. What might make them seem more honest is if they would list their political affiliations, the causes for which they advocate or to which they have given money, and their lists of truths.