TOI used to have a Times View in news items for its opinions. Now, it’s in main story/headline.
‘Wily’ yesterday, ‘Brazen’, today. From having a newspaper’s opinions restricted to op-ed page, now it has reached headlines and body copy. Using a word like ‘defiant’ (which TOI does, today, in certain editions, to denote UP Govnt.) still seems ok because it merely refers to a stand taken, but ‘Brazen’ adds another layer to it, since it literally means ‘bold and without shame’.
No more just reporting news?
Larger question – should newspapers add their opinion in every story right in the headline and body copy, beyond merely informing us?
If that’s the case, shouldn’t we question (like we do with people’s tweets!) the journalist’s biases/political orientation behind that?
Second question – who could we tag that opinion to? The individual journalist filing the story or that of the newspaper/editor?