Journalism and Worldviews - Will They Blend?

There is a good article today from theResurgence.com about a recent Time magazine article: 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now: 3. The New Calvinism.

It's an interesting summary from a secular source about what many Christians have already noticed about Christianity - the format and focus is shifting, but not away from the Bible, just away from the 1980's - 1990's excessive legalism (usually labeled "fundamentalism") and towards a more balanced understanding and application of Biblical principles and truths. It's also interesting how the article starts off dripping with sarcasm about what Christianity is, but has a harder time being so down on it when the author is just giving the facts from other sources half-way through.

Which brings me to my main point: I love how journalism these days is half editorializing, half reporting the facts... it's like: in order for people to be interested in what I write, I have to make it controversial even if it's not because there's plenty of plain old facts to report that don't need the editorializing and that would bore them. (the people) Why do journalists (especially those at places like Time magazine, the New Yorker, and other decidedly left-leaning journalism houses) think that the American public is too stupid to be able to decide for themselves how the facts of the day line up to frame their worldview? Why do these journalists feel the need to frame my worldview for me?

The fact of the matter is that today, perhaps more than any other time in history, it is far EASIER to frame my own worldview because of the Internet's vast collective information gathering, so I certainly don't NEED someone else to do it for me. Could it be that with the demise of even well established newspapers the journalists themselves are realizing that their worth is not contingent on their own elitist ability to "know" more than the rest of us, and therefore they are trying to carve a niche for themselves as not just the knowledge experts, but as the worldview experts as well?

I contend that far too many journalists see that they should be the world's worldview experts, and that the commoner should rely on these people not just for factual reporting but for worldview shaping as well. Given the current state of the global marketplace of ideas, religions, and information I think this is no longer a tenable view. So in response to the Time article: allow me to think for myself about what I think about the New Calvinism, because I really disagree with your editorialized disgust for the "micro-managing" God of the New Calvinism. (which, by the way, is not what the New Calvinists believe about who the God of the Bible is)