The Fine Print

First principle

Objectivity is relative. Everything is relative, even relativity is relative. Absolutism is wrong, and this paper holds that to include absolutism about itself. The definitions below are therefore house definitions—what the words mean here, in the stamps and the schema of this paper—offered so that a reader always knows what claim is being made, and can hold the paper to it.

“Objective,” as used in this paper

Objective means the desk is not driven by an agenda, is not an advocate, is not a politician, is not modeling behavior, and is not training up citizens. It is reporting the news as if it were objective: wire copy first, every contested claim attributed to whoever made it, every linked story described by what it says, and the analysis written from the clippings filed beneath it, which the reader may audit. The claim is a claim about method, not about metaphysics, and it extends to exactly one thing in each edition: the desk’s own analysis, which carries the objective stamp and is classified objective in the page’s metadata.

“Subjective,” as used in this paper

Subjective means the item comes from a source with its own position, as all sources have. It is printed because it is useful information, weighed by the reader. Every excerpted or linked external item carries the subjective stamp, individually, and editorials carry it at giant size. The stamp classifies the item’s relationship to the desk—it is not ours—and says nothing at all about the item’s worth. Sources the reader trusts and sources the reader distrusts carry the identical stamp, on purpose.

Aggregation and analysis

We aggregate and analyze. The inputs are the world’s reporting entire, read whole and read in the original languages of their angles. The analysis is written the way a senior analyst writes: from the inputs, without spin. Spin is what propagandists add downstream when they roll honest reports up; this paper is upstream of that transaction and declines to enter it. Where the desk’s analysis and a clipping diverge, both stand in the edition as filed, and the divergence is the reader’s to judge.

Equal weight

No source in these pages is more reputable, to this paper, than a press release issued directly from Langley. That sentence is not an insult to the wires; it is the paper’s standing instruction to itself about every source alike, the wires included, Langley included. Reputation is a reader’s calculation. The desk supplies the record.

Pickup, reuse, and syndication

This paper is published to be picked up. Link it, quote it, syndicate it, and feed it into your own systems, with attribution to Objective Daily News and a link back to the edition you took it from. No permission is required, and none will be granted, because none is needed: the paper’s business is to become part of the record, and a record nobody may copy is a diary. The feeds—RSS, Atom, and JSON—carry the full text of every edition for exactly this purpose, and taking the feed is taking the paper with our blessing.

Two boundaries, stated plainly. The analysis is this paper’s own work, and it travels with its classification: quote it as the desk’s, objective stamp and all, and do not re-file it as your own reporting. The clippings belong to their sources, as they always have; this paper’s license in them is the license of a clipping bureau—to select, to describe, and to point—and a reader who would reuse a clipping beyond fair quotation should treat with the source, exactly as the reader would have before this paper existed.

Corrections

This paper is an archive and a log. Editions are not revised after filing, and nothing published here expires or is silently withdrawn. Corrections, updates, and revisions of annotation are appended to the edition and dated, in the open, so that the record of what the desk said at the hour stands beside the record of what it learned later. The pilot edition on this site already carries such an appendage, dated November 4, 2026, 9:44 AM, and readers are invited to check our work against it.

Times

All times in this paper are the times of collection and analysis at the desk, America/New_York unless otherwise stated. Posting times are mechanics and are not represented as anything else. Do not set your watch by this paper.