For
They can follow ethical standards and report facts.
Against
Everyone has personal beliefs that influence their work.
Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.
“Journalists should strive to be objective and as unbiased as possible”
“News report will just report the facts, no matter how they are presented, in their full context.”
“You cannot report on something “objectively.” You can come close, but you cannot remove human bias.”
“Even deciding which stories to report and which not to or where in the paper the story sits is subjective and biased.”