Objectivity and Sarah Palin

"Objectivity" is a writing style. It's not a personal virtue. But, journalists and wikipedia contributors are being harassed for not being "objective" about Sarah Palin.

But what would "objectivity" look like? You're being objective about Hitler when you say he killed six million Jews.

All TRUE statements are OBJECTIVE by definition. However, they also have to be documented and backed-up. If you're true by accident like the monkey at the typewriter, your statement is objective but in the only applicable sense, you didn't write it, you typed it.

The most partisan person, the person who stays informed and takes sides, happens to be what a citizen needs to be in a democratic society. He or she also happens to often make a good reporter.

He or she learns canons of good reporting including objective WRITING. But he doesn’t become a brainless moron knowing nothing except the latest feed from the leadership…unless he’s a reporter for the Rangoon Daily Mutt.

Even mixed fact and opinion can be “objective” because an intelligent reader knows at which words, which characters, the fact ends, the opinion starts, and the facts come back, and so on.

In fact, opinions organize writing. All writing will framework its subject matter. The corporate, America First philosophy will not focus on Palin's lack of ability because the corporate philosophy seeks to run America from the boardroom. It used Cheney's Heart of Darkness Vice Presidentship to gain its ends. It will use a woman who's shown her willingness to sacrifice her son's life and that of his mates in Iraq (by way of publicising his service) as a useful gofer.

Whereas someone interested in what the rest of the country needs will foreground the way in which Palin only tactically disassociated herself from the fatcats, essentially to increase her sales price when in fact she became the ho-bag for Alaska's vested interests.

The objective truth of Palin is that she’s a buffoon, but that’s an “opinion” because “buffoon” is so loaded. But she’s still a buffoon, based on the facts, starting with her record.