Mark:

You are 100 per cent correct. Newspapers should be in the buisness of reporting the news in the most truthfull manner possible. If they throw in “make the world a better place” into their mission statement they set up the situation where if they report the truth could that not hinder their goal of world improvement. If they happen to believe that a Democratic political victory would make the world a better place then they would be tempted to fudge the facts. If they think the war in Iraq is bad for the world they might decide they need to use their position to end the war, not simply report on it. The L.A. Times puts stories on battles in Iraq that go badly on the front page and cover them in exact detail. they put stories on battles that go well in the back pages underneath stories about a mass wedding in Iraq and simply list the enemy dead and wounded and give little to no details. I am sure they think they are making the world a better place.

Kevin Peters