Journalism, I believe, encompasses opinions. It does first-hand news gathering, analysis, investigation and access to information, but I also believe that it does involve opinion journalism. Every major newspaper in this country has an editorial section, and we would not say those people are not journalists.
What I think distinguishes a lot of the truly independent journalists from government journalists in this country is that they're honest about their political biases. They don't try to obscure them in the way we see at the CBC or the Toronto Star.