Post reporter on objectivity

Journalists cannot and should not be objective, said T.R. Reid, a Washington Post reporter who also does commentary for NPR, to BYU journalism students on campus this morning. Reid, who has written eight books, including The United States of Europe, said that American journalism should move to the European model, in which news organizations are overtly partisan. Readers must read two or three newspapers to get the full story, he said, but at least journalists can then be honest with themselves.