Article: Law Comes Before Personal Views, Alito Says
Found in: The Los Angeles Times
Published: November 15, 2005

This article was intriguing because it talks about how Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. has said that he separates his personal beliefs from his interpretation of the law. This comment was triggered over uproar about a comment Alito had made in 1985 about abortion which caused many people to doubt his authority and power in the Supreme Court. In the article, Alito is quoted as stating that his personal beliefs will have no factor in the interpretation of the law. This situation parallels very nicely with journalists and the inclusion of personal opinions in the news. It causes readers to wonder whether journalists commit this act and forces them to question the validity of the news and the ethics behind the act. I found the parallelism between the two topics amusing because the former situation has received a lot of media attention because the media believes Alito's attitude in interpreting the law is important to the public. However, the latter situation involving journalists does not receive much media attention even though the way journalists write the news profoundly impacts readers and their perception of the world.