Thane Peterson makes a point in Business Week that I have been arguing for a couple of years: "I think a major push is under way to move back toward the highly personal and politicized style of journalism that prevailed in the early days of the Republic."

Lots of people seem to think that the principle of journalistic objectivity was enshrined in the First Amendment, but as Peterson notes, it is a relatively recent convention. What journalism is now becoming is something that the Founding Fathers may not have admired but would have understood and expected.