Ozark - I think it’s humanly impossible for a
reporter/journalist to be objective - after all, the
‘subject’ is delivering the news.  I was unaware that
Leftists wanted all news scrubbed of objectivity. And
I’m assuming then that the Right also wants all news
scrubbed of objectivity.

If such are the cases, it is my responsibility to
read both ‘presentations’ of the same news item.  Of
course, I won’t necessarily end up with the ‘truth.’ 

(To cut reporters some slack, it’s a good idea to
remember that harried reporters tend to see breaking
news through the rear view mirror of premises they
haven’t had time to examine.  But that’s not supposed
to be the plight of journalists - there’s a huge
difference between the two cats, or so they argue.  I
sometimes have my doubts.)

Nope, i dont know that all the students who participated are Leftists. So you are right about that.

But I do know that Leftists want all reports to be scrubbed of objectivity. There are several Truthdig articles calling for that, including this one coincidently entitled “Away with Objectivity”:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/away_with_objectivity_20111107/

Read it and let me know what you think.

OzarkMichael - do you know for a fact that the
Berkeley students who participated in the rally are
all Leftists? Now I’ll pull a you and say that all
Rightists are indiscriminate with their epithets.

Aside from that, my student/granddaughter was at the
demonstration (didn’t get clubbed.)  She related to
me that some of the demonstrators were definitely not
abiding by the rules of non-violent demonstrating, in
fact, some were deliberately shoving others into the
cops.  I’ve participated through the years in many
non-violent demonstrations and have always suspected
that there were a few among us who intended to
deliberately provoke the cops to violence.  I’ve
always figured, well this is democracy and democracy
is always messy so don’t sweat it.

(I’ve also suspected that the provokers may have been
Rightist plants.)

Elegantly worded and completely lacking objectivity.

Just what Leftists love best.