I’m seeing more and more people get sucked into playing the Partisan Politics Game. The latest player is the Washington Post. What is the purpose of hiring their latest blogger? It’s my opinion the reason he was selected was to sell newspapers. The man they showed preference for is not an intellectual; he’s not even a particularly good reporter. What he is good at is raising the tone of discussion to participants calling each other names, using language that is structured away from civility. This is not a mistake on the part of this newspaper; it's an attempt to increase circulation. What they are abandoning is their credibility in favour of popularity. They have made a modest venture into the realm of sensationalized news.

Not many people read yellow journalism because of its bias.

"The Big Type War of the Yellow Kids." Hearst wasn’t successful at the game he pitted himself against with Pulitzer, but now is a different era dominated by more sharply divided people.

The Bush administration is a master of divisiveness. Right wing punditry is now a very popular pastime. Just don’t get sucked into thinking it has anything to do with truth, objectivity and a source of news.

Canada too is in danger of having their news distorted. We have elected a Prime Minister that is seeking to affiliate himself with sources that aren’t reliable.

One way to distinguish professional journalism from yellow journalism, is the latter paint with a broad brush using only black and white. The former uses a finer, detail brush that uses millions of shades of gray.