the objective is not objectivity

Creative Loafing points us to this story...

Atlanta Progressive News has parted ways with long-serving senior staff writer Jonathan Springston. Apparently, Springston’s affinity for fact-based reporting clashed with Cardinale’s vision. And, no, that’s not sarcasm.

In an e-mail statement, editor Matthew Cardinale says Springston was asked to leave APN last week “because he held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News.”

If you thought newspapers were in trouble because no one reads them, you might still be right, but maybe we're starting to see why no one reads them any more? (Of course, it's not just papers that are losing their objectivity.)