Thanks for another excellent article, Walter.
I only wish that newspapers, tv news, and online censorship were the only purveyors of false news and statist propaganda. There isn't a movie or tv program made in the past 10 years that hasn't foisted socialist, racist propaganda on the viewers.

If I was POTUS I'd be tempted to terminate the broadcast licenses of every network and cable company for overwhelming bias.

Me dino with my BS degree in Journalism and with 7 years experience during the Seventies as a newspaper reporter agrees with Sean Hannity that journalism is dead. That's because, despite the status of my degree, Fake News is actual BS.
As for "advocacy journalism," I prefer to call it "public relations" (one course that I took) or "free adviertising." And there's "pandering" or being a "paid puppet."

Nicely written, WDonway. I've seen this advocacy journalism most of my adult life, but recently it has been more blatant and vitriolic than ever before. After reading "The Fountainhead" back in the mid '70s I've learned to view newspapers and other so-called news sources with a bit more scrutiny.

Additionally, this journalism may not advocate anything, but simply purveys negativity and hatred towards the selected target.

Edit add: Here's an example of subtle "advocacy journalism" in my hometown rag from the early '90s. The paper was totally in the tank of the D party. As election day came near, out of the 20 or so positions up for election the paper advocated the D candidate in all but the one R running unopposed. There were actual descriptions like this: If the incumbent was a D the editorial would say "experience counts" so vote D, and if the incumbent was a R the editorial would say "a fresh viewpoint is needed, vote D". I kid you not, LOL!

Like your comment, Allosaur. Advocacy journalism seems to have features of PR and advertising, but its "product" is ideologies, causes, candidates. Or so I understand it. Journalism as a profession certainly may have expired, but, of course, there are journalists and publications still upholding the old standard. Very early in my career, I was a general assignment reporter, then the business/finance reported for the Worcester "Telegram." A very fine newspaper whose publisher was a member of the John Birch Society. Best job I ever had. I should have stayed with it.

Fake news is the enemy of the people.

In 1967 I was an undergraduate in a Business Administration program. We required to take several unrelated courses including one in journalism where I "learned" from the professor that the journalists job was to Educate the people in the ideology of the times (socialism of course.) "Reporting facts" was incidental to the job, and only report facts that support the narrative. I have thought that there are no more reporters of news, just story tellers trained to spin what ever they tell.

PRESS = People Really Enforcing Stupid Socialism