text: I did, in fact, read your article, and I agree that you said that.  The problem is that it's simply not true.  “Journalists today also typically understand the fallacies of objectivity as a fixed and limited concept. They try to transcend its conventional boundaries by valuing and weighing information on its perceived merits, not by using objectivity as some sort of rigid scale designed to give equal time to unequal ideas."  But that is EXACTLY what you are doing with the GMO issue.  You are pretending as if both sides have equal merit and that Joan's "conflict of interest" is somehow relevant to that fact.   Should high school teachers disclose the fact that "Big Government" pays them to teach Round Earth Theory?  What is the conflict?  The Earth is round and GMOs are safe -- why is it relevant to disclose the fact that someone is being paid to report scientific fact?  We don't need to hear from the flat Earthers -- they're wrong.  It's your job to tell everyone that fact.