this way about a particular issue and covering something related to it, it is not that hard to screen it out of your coverage. it really isn t. lawyers do it every day. they represent clients that they think are guilty. judges decide in favor or against people they like or dislike all the time. it is not impossible. it is a discipline, a skill. but if you won t admit it to yourself, you have no chance. and it used to be that the editors of newspapers around the country really lead in those days by the new york times were very careful to make sure reporters wrote their stories in neutral language. that discipline, i m afraid, tucker, is out the window. the morning after the state of the union address by the president, the washington post had a banner headline that said, a discordant appeal for unity.t now they may have found this speech discordant, and i m sure that the journalist did, but that is an opinion. and the lead of the story said