Opinion

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RE: “Levelling with real journalism,” March 19-25, 2009

We live in an era where "journalism" means concentrated corporate media with a business agenda and a stark priority: If it bleeds it leads.

So when the author of last week’s opinion piece denounced The Leveller because it's not "real journalism" it makes you wonder. Has she ever read The Sun, or the National Post, or the new free Hollywood dailies like Metro?

RE: “Levelling with real journalism,” March 19-25, 2009

Where does the idea that journalism's byline should be “Fair and Balanced” come from? We, as an audience, are meant to believe that journalism lives in a world without bias, where the “news” can come from an objective source that presents only facts. “We Report, You Decide,” the saying goes. But biases are like brains, we all have one. To quote Stephen Colbert, even “reality has a well known (liberal) bias.”

Etienne Rollin scowls as he peers into the telescope atop Carleton’s Hertzberg Laboratories. Although there was only a 25 per cent chance of an overcast sky this morning, a hazy layer has settled in just in time to prevent him from photographing some astronomical spectacles.

Meghan Sali is a second-year journalism student. She thinks The Leveller should avoid calling itself a newspaper due to its overly editorialized content.