Adventures in Reading: The relevance of opinions

I understand that people today are reluctant to sign their names to opinions in today’s angry world. I have written in the past about how I miss the days when we went to parties and argued politics but left at the end of the evening as friends. What was essential to those arguments was the accuracy of the information about which we argued. One would think that today we have access to even better sources for accurate information, but it seems to me that traditional correspondents like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite have been smothered by news filled with opinion rather than information.