fails to justify its presumption that judgments about fact and judgments about value are indistinguishable draws a conclusion regarding what is right or wrong entirely on the basis of evidence regarding matters of fact concludes that a practice completely lacks a quality on the basis of evidence for its lacking the pure form of that quality fails to distinguish between the methods employed by individual members of a particular profession and the methods endorsed by the profession as a whole
Journalism professor: Since the number of reportable facts confronting any journalist is extraordinarily large, every journalist must employ a principle of selection. However, any such principle of selection is bound to be subjective, for it involves value judgments. Ttherefore, the view that there is any degree of objectivity in journalistic reporting is a myth. This means that, for example, no newspaper article is more objective than any other.
The journalism professor's argument is flawed because it