There are more facts in a day than would fit in a million newspapers. You have to make choices. Which news will you report? Who will you interview, and which sources will you consult? Which ones do you even have access to? Which ones will you still have once you publish this week's story?
Impartiality in journalism is a myth invented by those propping up the status quo. The most you can be is honest.
Do you consider The Economist to be part of the divisive partisan journalism we have today? Because they are explicitly partial in their approach to journalism, promoting specific values and viewpoints: https://www.economist.com/help/about-us
Partiality is not the same as partisanship or sectarianism.
I couldn't say, I'm not familiar enough with their work to have an opinion.
When I read the news, I want to know what happened in the world - I don't want to read it through the lens of the journalist. If there was a skirmish between Israel and Hamas, tell me that. Explain the events as we understand them, without spinning them to fit into a political narrative. What I dislike is when the Guardian reports it as Israel oppressing innocent Palestinians and Fox News reports it as a terrorist attack on unsuspecting checkpoint guards. People in the left-leaning tech industry tend to interpret this as "Fox News always lies" but from what I've seen it's more like both sides lie and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
The real world is murky and complicated and political issues are very rarely black-and-white (if they were, there wouldn't be 2 sides). When journalists simplify a story to pander to bias, it promotes black-and-white thinking and I believe that's extremely harmful to meaningful political engagement.
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> Partiality is not the same as partisanship or sectarianism.
OK sure, I'll grant you that. The latter is what I take issue with. Reporting from a perspective is to be expected, a social commentary journal would focus on different facts from an economics or a culture journal and you'll have other differences. My issue is basically how political reporters spin stories.
Impartiality in journalism is a myth invented by those propping up the status quo. The most you can be is honest.