Can I rant for a minute or so here? Thanks.
This is what I want to see happen (and this stems to the world at large, though deflate-gate definitely highlights the issue for me) in the business world. I think we need clear and concise principles from our media. You either report news or you provide opinion pieces. You can't provide both.
The news needs to provide information that has been confirmed by multiple sources and upholds journalistic integrity.
The rest can be information that is consumed with the understanding that these are people's opinions or are stories made for entertainment. Think TMZ...
I believe the sheoples of the US confuse the 2 in the sense that CNN reports news, when they report on stories, there is a shred of journalism done here. The same goes for Fox News, ... Though if they did this, news stations probably would go out of business.
Thank you, this could go on forever, but I wanted to keep it short.
I wish I could like this a million times. The job of news should be to provide us with facts and let us form the opinions. They have completely turned it upside down by feeding us opinions while we have to do the fact finding.