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They used to be able to. If you read contemporary news reports around when ISAIF was published prior to him having been caught, I suspect they would have used far more neutral language than this. Calling something "unhinged" would have been reserved for the OpEd pages.
This is a recent phenomenon.
Yeah I've noticed this shift too. When I was younger there was no way a "respectable" journalist would use that kind of language.
The Columbia school of journalism literally changed their principles. They switched from objectivity and emotional detachment to outright activism and relativism. These are the official standards for the industry.
Same as with language of the current generation media has lost a lot of articulation, too. Idiocracy seems more and more like a prediction for the future.
You can see how newspapers have just become propaganda since about 2012.
Hahaha no they've been propaganda for much longer than that. Remember the Maine?