Apple enthusiast John Gruber quotes NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen:

In pro journalism, American style, the View from Nowhere is a bid for trust that advertises the viewlessness of the news producer. Frequently it places the journalist between polarized extremes, and calls that neither-nor position “impartial.” Second, it’s a means of defense against a style of criticism that is fully anticipated: charges of bias originating in partisan politics and the two-party system. Third: it’s an attempt to secure a kind of universal legitimacy that is implicitly denied to those who stake out positions or betray a point of view. American journalists have almost a lust for the View from Nowhere because they think it has more authority than any other possible stance.

The implicature is that opinionated viewpoints, like Gruber’s and MG Siegler’s, are the way to go. The implicature is also that MG Siegler’s recent attack on The Verge and the subsequent ultra-defensive stance are perfectly justified.

But if Gruber scrolled down, he would also find Rosen saying that:

I think it’s wiser to be ecumenical about this. A great deal of progress can be made with a pluralistic solution. Let’s have View from Nowhere people flourishing side by side with “here where I’m coming from” journalists, and see what happens. Ease up and let both systems operate– sometimes within the same news organization.

Of course, there’s no room for ecumenicality in the world of dogmatism. So that part of Rosen’s view is conveniently elided.

(By the way, there’s something terribly ironic about Apple enthusiasts pumping for their “here’s where I’m coming from” viewpoints but also get outraged when they are labeled as Apple enthusiasts.)

UPDATE: An alternative explanation.