I was responding to your point about "permission." And yes, I asked for an explanation. I get yours but it's not justification.
it's not arbitrary. "Hard news" means "we try hard to report the facts in accordance with journalism best practices"
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it also means an editor can object to editorializing as a matter of course.
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And what I'm saying is that a best practice of journalism is transparency, which the label "hard news" doesn't provide.
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I don't remember seeing "hard news" in print anywhere. It's a label that describes the effort to avoid editorializing.
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I'm quoting *you* with hard news :) - didn't you say it on this thread?
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I was annoyed by your cite of "news" here: https://twitter.com/BenSpielberg/status/842139747812290560 …, not "hard news"
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How about "news reporting?"
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Do you agree that it's a reasonable endeavor to try to report on what's happened in the world while minimizing editorializing?
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