Newsweek suffered another defection with the announcement that its senior political correspondent Howard Fineman is jumping ship to the liberal Huffington Post.

Fineman who joined Newsweek in 1980 continues the mass exodus from the magazine since billionaire Sidney Harman agreed to purchase the magazine from the Washington Post Company last month.

For Fineman leaving Newsweek was a no brainer as Harman plans to slim down the publication in an effort to trim losses and keep the magazine afloat.  Joining HuffPo is only natural as Fineman has done little over the years to hide his liberal views and now joins a cadre of fellow thinkers at one of the left’s fastest growing web sites.

Ina n interview with the far left web site Media Matters Fineman said that HuffPo will be able to offer fair and balanced reporting unlike that of Fox news which mixes its ideology too much with reporting.   Fineman also told Media Matters that HuffPo that the site can be fair and objective and won’t be a Fox News of the Left.

Yet when he was asked about objectivity  Fineman said that he believes in”the idea of objectivity but everyone brings their own assumptions and background to everything they do.”

So he believes the site can be fair and objective and at the same time he believes that it’s hard to be objective since everyone has their own biases.

I agree with Fineman that everyone brings their own assumptions or biases to everything they do.  But that doesn’t mean that  a journalist can’t put those biases aside when writing about a particular subject.  Stop editorializing, report the facts and let the reader decide.

Maybe if Fineman and his fellow liberals actually tried to be objective they would see how easy it really is.

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