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BoingBoing wrote:Jonathan Springston, a senior reporter for the Atlanta Progressive News, was fired from the online news service because, according to an email from the site's editor to Creative Loafing magazine, Springston "held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News."

Discuss? Objectively or progressively.

As much as I love freedom of speech, sometimes I wish that journalistic license was something that could be taken away from people.

Objective reporting: The relevant facts, the background behind the relevant facts. Reasonable expert opinions.

Non-objective reporting: The most sensational and frightening factoids, background only where it serves to scandalize, the most extreme and out-there expert opinions or quotes and misrepresentations thereof.

The Atlanta Progressive News: By it's own admission not a publisher of things related with reality. Consequently, new "News" but "Fiction". Someone sue them for false advertisement please.

Also, judging by their website, they seem to feel that campaigning for politicians is somehow news. Tossers.

I thought the wording of it was rather interesting. Let go for believing that there was an objective reality. What a surreal age we live in.
"How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

Rev wrote: it's gonna be an interesting time to live in, where multiple interpretations of the same events compete for, um, truthiness.

Bonus points for use of the word 'truthiness'.

Kind of makes me want to firebomb the atlanta progressive news.

/RM