.@pmarca says objectivity is a relatively new idea in journalism: (opens in new tab)

.@pmarca says objectivity is a relatively new idea in journalism: "If you go back to the news business before World War II, if you start in colonial days and if you extend all the way up through the 1930s, the news business worked very differently. It was a very successful business and a lot of people were in it. A lot of people made a lot of money." "In the days when news businesses were fully competitive, subjectivity was how it went. And they always say, you're scumbag, how can you say tha...