Objectivity is impossible. A reporter's job is to not let their own opinions or beliefs take precedent over reporting the news. Again, TH reports all sides and injects his opinion in the blogs and his Sunday column when he feels its warranted. You're irritated because he doesn't share your opinion/baseball view. He's also cantankerous, which I think, just exacerbates it. I see just as many people laud TH in his blog as criticize him. No, I don't think there are many people who could do the job he does. It's much more difficult than people realize to cultivate the type of relationship he has with the main sources on the team and still be able to ask tough questions night after night without the door being slammed in his face. I think its the readers that are antagonizing TH, not the other way around. As far as the Packers writers go, the Packers guys get into it with the team instead - McGinn who had it out with Thompson at the post-Favre press conference.