BTW, ditching objectivity in journalism has been going on a long time as a campaign.

The End of Objectivity (Version 0.91)

dangillmor.typepad.com

A very subjective, opinionated article with no sourcing, of course, but also quoted here as fact (might want to correct that headline as well):

Five W’s and a H that should come *after* every story (A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt3)

onlinejournalismblog.com

“Again, while there is a fine tradition of feature articles in this vein, this is about opening it to readers. The web offers easy access to online petitions and automatically generated letters to your MP on the more traditional side; while consumer action and changing consumer behaviour is made easy by the ability to switch services online. No doubt there are other examples I’m not including (smart mobs spring to mind). And yes, it’s about advocacy, which may be uncomfortable for journalists used to the principle of objectivity. But I think we’re past that, aren’t we?” [A Brit writing about an American’s opinion of “objectivitiy” which suits his own meanderings about journalism.)

So, in all the enthusiasm to make everyone a “citizen-journalist” in the campaign to crush objectivity, will there be no pro journalists whatsoever? Will it cease to be a profession that requires no education, but a willy-nilly rush to permit amateurs to rule with gossip, innuendo, advocacy, and activism disguised as journalism? Will editors be a thing of the past, along with any last vestige of integrity whatsoever?