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MIButterfly

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Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:13 PM Monday

When I was in what they used to call junior high, I took Journalism classes [View all]

and we were always told that when we report a story, we should never slant it one way or the other; we should just report the facts and let the readers form their own opinions.

Did the the so-called reporters of today not take Journalism in the seventh grade? Or is it that they just don't teach it that way anymore? My Journalism teacher, Mrs. Palmer, would have a fit if any one of us wrote they way they do now.

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