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No, the Dinosaur Journos Have NOT "Dropped Objectivity"

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  No, the Dinosaur Journos Have NOT "Dropped Objectivity" The Corbett Report by James Corbett "Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Establishment media journalists are dropping objectivity!" As a conspiracy realist, you would be right to scoff at a newsboy yelling such an obvious observation as if it were a breaking news scandal of mammoth proportions. " Of course  the dinosaur media hacks aren't objective," you might mutter under your breath as you pass by. "What are you going to report next, that water is wet?" But if that  is  your reaction to such a statement, then what are we to make of the Columbia Journalism Review's new 24,000-word,  four-part report  purporting to show that  The   New York Times  and its fellow travelers in the corporate media have done "damage to [their] credibility" by dropping the pretense of objectivity in their reporting on the Russiagate story? It's easy to get swept up in the excitement of the I-...