As many of you may know I side with Osiris. Its a logical rather than emotional/ ideological thing for me but thats irrelevant.

Back to the subject at hand.

I don't mind editorials, in fact they're essential to provoking debate. What gets me is when an item of news etc is presented as factual but is an opinion piece.
Often "Journalists" are guilty of manipulating the facts in order to support there own position on a topic.
There is no excuse for journalists mis-informing the public, especially when they are in a position of trust.

For example, how furious would you be if a teacher, whom a student is told is there to teach them facts was found to be actively promoting any religious doctrine?
If such a person tells a student God/Allah/Jehova created the universe then the student will base their world view around this, seeing it as a "Fact".

As Adults we often put our trust in journalists to relay facts and information around which we make decisions.
If we cannot do this how are we supposed to make informed decisions with regards to politics, finance etc?

Ideally newspapers/ programmes/ news sites would post a disclaimer at the start of the piece, ensuring that people are informed they are consuming an opinion piece.
Not nearly enough new sources etc adopt easily accessible ethics policies. The only example i know of is a games site known as Polygon.

It is also disappointing how much influence big business have on papers. Monopolies such as the Murdoch empire should, in my belief, be broken up ensuring journalistic independence and integrity.
I absolutely don't support Govt' regulation of the press (there is nothing more dangerous to our freedoms) but I'm a big advocate of independent regulators whom are answerable to the public.