Interesting quote from the Alex Jones trial . . .
— Scarlett Lewis, the mother of a child killed at Sandy Hook and plaintiff in the first of three defamation damages trials against Alex Jones,
What Jones did was to promote unfounded OPINION to a group of people susceptible to believing the government would murder 20 children to 'take away the guns.'
That's why it's important not to confuse OPINION with honest journalism. It's like equating religion to science.
If someone honestly cannot tell the difference they should follow Abraham Lincoln's advice and "Remain silent and be thought a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt."
If, on the other hand, they really do know the difference and speak anyway those who pay attention to them are the fools.
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BLM. 
A big, fat K&R.
I edited my post to fit what I expected fit your preferences.
I DON'T HAVE AN ARGUMENT with your idea on what "journalism" encompasses. I changed what I wrote to fit that.
Are you unhappy with me labeling the quote from the article as opinion?
Americans who hold the musket-rights granting Second Amendment near and dear to their hearts...
Would you prefer a term like whimsy, brain-fart, hyperbole, allegory, creative license or something I haven't yet guessed?
I prefer to remain congenial on the site and I got your message that you object to op-ed type opinion based information as not journalism. I will here and now acknowledge:
- my use of the term journalism was wrong
- I made a mistake
- I expect that many people may and probably do share your view
- You are the all-being master of the definition, scope and use of the term journalism.
I humbly ask that you stop looking to continue discussing what is obvious. Mea culpa, whatever,
Have a nice weekend. 
I found this from a university site on writing and the differences between Facts, Opinions and Beliefs.
https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/co300man/pop12d.cfm
Distinguishing Fact, Opinion, Belief, and Prejudice
When forming personal convictions, we often interpret factual evidence through the filter of our values, feelings, tastes, and past experiences. Hence, most statements we make in speaking and writing are assertions of fact, opinion, belief, or prejudice. The usefulness and acceptability of an assertion can be improved or diminished by the nature of the assertion, depending on which of the following categories it falls into:
A fact is verifiable. We can determine whether it is true by researching the evidence. This may involve numbers, dates, testimony, etc. (Ex.: "World War II ended in 1945."
The truth of the fact is beyond argument if one can assume that measuring devices or records or memories are correct. Facts provide crucial support for the assertion of an argument. However, facts by themselves are worthless unless we put them in context, draw conclusions, and, thus, give them meaning.
An opinion is a judgment based on facts, an honest attempt to draw a reasonable conclusion from factual evidence. (For example, we know that millions of people go without proper medical care, and so you form the opinion that the country should institute national health insurance even though it would cost billions of dollars.) An opinion is potentially changeable--depending on how the evidence is interpreted. By themselves, opinions have little power to convince. You must always let your reader know what your evidence is and how it led you to arrive at your opinion.
Unlike an opinion, a belief is a conviction based on cultural or personal faith, morality, or values. Statements such as "Capital punishment is legalized murder" are often called "opinions" because they express viewpoints, but they are not based on facts or other evidence. They cannot be disproved or even contested in a rational or logical manner. Since beliefs are inarguable, they cannot serve as the thesis of a formal argument. (Emotional appeals can, of course, be useful if you happen to know that your audience shares those beliefs.)
Another kind of assertion that has no place in serious argumentation is prejudice, a half-baked opinion based on insufficient or unexamined evidence. (Ex.: "Women are bad drivers." Unlike a belief, a prejudice is testable: it can be contested and disproved on the basis of facts. We often form prejudices or accept them from others--family, friends, the media, etc.--without questioning their meaning or testing their truth. At best, prejudices are careless oversimplifications. At worst, they reflect a narrow-minded view of the world. Most of all, they are not likely to win the confidence or agreement of your readers.
(Adapted from: Fowler, H. Ramsey. The Little, Brown Handbook. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.)
"Liar is liable", I like that. I'm adopting it, already picked out the wallpaper for its room. So proud. 
