Budget coverage skewed by the view from the second beach house

The concept of objectivity is the burden-bearing myth that keeps the entire damp sharing house called journalism afloat. Without it, the news is propaganda, advocacy, entertainment, personal branding, free therapy, and a support group for bald white men who confuse trust with relevance.

Of course, no one really believes in objectivity anymore. Not in the pure, priestly, marble-columned sense of journalists standing above the dirty world, looking down on politics like great eagles. Viewers know that journalists and editors have politics, newspapers have owners, owners have interests, interests have lawyers, and lawyers have second homes.