Balance

We all have our opinions and preferences. It's good that we do--that's part of what makes us human.

Journalists don't have to shed their biases either. That would be too much to ask of them. Places are set aside where reporters can feel free to let their opinions out--opinion columns, the editorial page, insight stories.

That's why a one-sided piece that compares abortion to the Holocaust is so out of place on the front page of the City/County section, masquerading as news.

I suppose a person might look at the bland headline and say, "Oh, it's not really about abortion. It's about an educational trip some students took to Washington, D.C."

Like hell it is.