Should the US bailout the big three automakers?

[Don]

What'saCobra:

A concern regarding the NY Times and others is when the reporters interject their, or an Editor's opinion , into the news article, rather than just the factual reporting. Included are the headlines, which can be mis-leading with the intent to influence the readers thoughts prior to reading the article.


November 30, 2008
THE PUBLIC EDITOR
Expert Opinions, From Neutral Observers

By CLARK HOYT
THE debate about bailing out Detroit has been impassioned in The Times. On the Op-Ed page, Mitt Romney argued that if Detroit gets what it wants, “you can kiss the American automobile industry goodbye.” Spencer Abraham, a former senator from Michigan, wrote that Romney’s preferred course, a “managed bankruptcy,” would doom the automakers.

The newspaper took its own stand in an editorial, declaring that a failure to provide an infusion of taxpayer money “would be a truly irresponsible act.”

Those were robust opinions, on the pages meant for them. But the reporters and columnists covering the economic crisis for The Times’s business news department have their own opinions, and they have not been shy about declaring them in columns on the news pages, raising again the question of how much people who report the news should also tell you what they think about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30pubed.html

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinio...tor/index.html

From prior NY Times Public Editor's comments, seems the NY Times Editors support including reporters opinions in news articles