Re: Nov. 19 Dick Hilker column.
Thank you for publishing Dick Hilker’s column. In journalism school, I was taught that my biases were to be eliminated in favor of objectivity. By the time the journalism school at the University of Colorado was closed, the rule had become “change society through reporting,” also known as the oxymoronic “advocacy journalism.” I immediately transferred the scholarship I endowed in my son’s memory at the J-school to the English Department’s creative writing program, figuring that it was by that time exactly what was being taught by the defunct School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
This society could benefit greatly by a return to objective reporting, trusting that people could figure out the truth from the facts and not have to be told by some reporter what it all meant. The Fourth Estate has relinquished its responsibility, and our country is poorer for that fact.
Thank you, Dick Hilker, for writing so well about the objectivity that needs to be restored in journalism. I applaud you.
Donna Jorgenson Farrell, Broomfield
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