“The rules of objective journalism require you to present facts to tell a true story, but the objective-journalism version of events can often obscure the reality of what’s really going on.” He explained to Sullivan that, as he sees it, “The typical practices of putting everything that happens in the context of normal behavior, of giving ‘both sides’ an almost equal say and of describing events in a neutral tone have an overall damaging effect. Put simply: ‘It sanitizes things.’”
