MtheGM

A Journalist/Reporter - reports news and covers events for a newspaper in order to inform the public and is supposed to leave his/her own bias and beliefs out of the piece reporting it impartially, objectively and factually as accurately as possible.

Editors or Columnists on the other hand are free to declare their bias and write articles accordingly - they are not reporting on anything they are providing comment on something someone else has reported on events in the news.

I believe that the lines have converged and merged so as to become almost indistinct over the past few years but the distinction should hold good for anyone reading and editorial piece, a column in which the bias of the columnist is well known and when reading news of a breaking story.

You seeing no difference at all sums up why anyone with any sense at all should never ever talk to the Press - today their stories are written long before the set out from their offices, they are not interested in finding out facts, their only interest is in the harvesting of sound-bites which when they re-emerge are usually taken out of context and misquoted - a Profession it bloody well isn't.