Some people mistake that, though, for subjectivity. No, it's not about having an opinion! It's about reporting deeply enough to state the truth! When a local magazine editor told me once that 'In magazine writing, you can have an opinion, that's what I teach my students,' as if I'd never heard that before, I blanched.

In newspaper writing, the problem is of a slightly different sort - without the time or resources to report deeply enough, reporters (and their editors) fall back on the formulas of objectivity that aren't objective at all, but instead just catalog the unvetted claims and outright lies of everyone quoted in a story. That's probably worse than simply writing an opinion because it's disguised as truth when it's the least truthy version of journalism of all. The lack of time and resources is not an excuse, either it can be done nonetheless. (It's even easier in the digital world than in print, with the ease of search, the availability of video and the tool of linking.) It just takes skill, hard work and a certain mindset. That magazine editor, by the way, didn't so much as want me to have an opinion, but to have his opinion, which, typical for him, wasn't a very good one. I stopped working for him, and I don't mean my old boss at Chicago magazine. I use to call my version of magazine writing a 'reported conclusion,' which my old boss liked very much. The only problem was getting an assignment with a pre-determined conclusion, which invalidates the whole premise of the job, and which is hugely common in the newspaper world as well. It's never served my career to come to an independent, reporting-based conclusion instead of the one an editor has dreamed up ahead of time. They tend not to like when you bring them real-world results different than what they pre-determined what you should bring them.

In other words, it's hazardous to your job to actually do your job the way it's supposed to be done. Now, having a notion, an angle, a thesis going into a story is fine. Sometimes you have a basis for such a thing. But that doesn't mean that's how you have to end. (Which is why I shy away from pitching stories to ideologically driven publications.

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