The collapse of the kind of journalism which declared it was objective was long overdue. Didn't we all learn in Freshman Composition or whatever it's now listed as on the college's website that prose has a point of view - and that is a good thing. With Mr. Colbert's NEWSWEEK mainstream media will finally be presenting the real deal: Events positioned and packaged as totally representing someone's or some ideology's or some pop tart's perspective.
This will be good in itself, that is, a reason for us to read NEWSWEEK again. That rag had become so predictably boring, a mashup of elite media and the struggle for a cool conversation a la blogosphere.
It will also be good for the powers-that-be - yes there are still lots of them - to have permission to let go of the myth of objectivity. Let the bias rip but make it respectful of others's intelligence. Huffington decries Cheney's "lies." Me? I decry his underestimation of our intelligence as well as our animal instincts about who's our buddy and who's not.
Most importantly, Mr. Colbert's NEWSWEEK will unleash an era of creativity among us writers. Our publishers, editors and clients will be listening to our innovative solutions to how they can present their opinions - which everything really is, isn't it.
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