I don't have figures, and every paper is different. Our paper has a feature on the cover of the A section every day that fits your theme, and our local section usually has one or two of it's 5-6 stories that fit also. Other sections have a mix.
Our editorial is all in one section, and very plainly laid out - 3-4 stories and letters to the editor. Many papers our size have similar layouts, where smaller papers tend to have more human interest (there's often less "news" in a town of 30,000 people as opposed to a large metro area).
Journalists are biased because they're people, and we're all biased in our own ways. But capitalistic forces are CERTAINLY a driving factor - we're a business. But this is nothing new. People need to remember that the idea of "Journalists/Newspapers as watchdogs of the common man" is an idea created BY the media to sell newspapers and airtime.
The craft of journalism certainly exists within this, and reporters honestly and truly care about the work they're doing, but things haven't gotten "worse" or "better" in terms of integrity. It was a business back then, and it's a business now. Styles have certainly changed, but if anything it's better now in terms of "what's news and what's opinion" - in the past stories tended to be sprinkled with much more personal reflection of the writer. American journalists today usually make the point of keeping the two separate.
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Our editorial is all in one section, and very plainly laid out - 3-4 stories and letters to the editor. Many papers our size have similar layouts, where smaller papers tend to have more human interest (there's often less "news" in a town of 30,000 people as opposed to a large metro area).
Journalists are biased because they're people, and we're all biased in our own ways. But capitalistic forces are CERTAINLY a driving factor - we're a business. But this is nothing new. People need to remember that the idea of "Journalists/Newspapers as watchdogs of the common man" is an idea created BY the media to sell newspapers and airtime.
The craft of journalism certainly exists within this, and reporters honestly and truly care about the work they're doing, but things haven't gotten "worse" or "better" in terms of integrity. It was a business back then, and it's a business now. Styles have certainly changed, but if anything it's better now in terms of "what's news and what's opinion" - in the past stories tended to be sprinkled with much more personal reflection of the writer. American journalists today usually make the point of keeping the two separate.