And they'd have gotten flunked by my college journalism professors in the 80s who would have explained to them, "you can be a journalist or you can be a political activist but you can't be both."
Why not?
Because an ethical journalist has to be unbiased and fair. A Whacktavist can't do that.
Today's Hoax Media Whacktavists are not journalists. They're Propagandists.