Pajamas Media asks

How can we be an on-line Joe Friday? i.e. how can we get it straight and report it honestly?

Maybe start with clearly labeling facts and why they are reported as facts. And clearly labeling inferences, conclusions and opinions. That may not make for gripping reading, but it would be goood exercise and discipline for the writers. If they don't have to examine these elements of the story, they may forget the distinction or never learn it in the first place. It wouldn't hurt to identify one's known biases at the outset. I mean, we knew what Joe Friday's point of view was. He was a cop, and he knew his job: Stop criminals.

The formal stuff could be edited to make the story readable, but if the system isn't built on a sold foundation, it will drift.