Example of LA Times printing opinion as news

Fury in New Orleans as housing demolition OKd

Activists and preservationists have sharply criticized the government's proposal to raze the city's biggest public housing complexes when low-income housing is in short supply.With rents up 45% and more than 3,000 former public housing residents scattered across the country, they say officials should quickly renovate and reopen the sturdy, mostly 1940s-era brick buildings, some of which were barely damaged by Katrina. Many talk of a conspiracy to purge the city of its poorest residents, pointing out the government will not replace all of the 4,500 public housing units it plans to demolish."The question remains: Who's in the mix?" said Torin Sanders, pastor of the Sixth Baptist Church, near the old St. Thomas housing project, which was razed before Katrina to make way for a mixed-use project. "I saw church members with bags packed walking around the city for somewhere to live."Yet many residents came to the meeting to speak in favor of new mixed-income communities."Why can we not go into something that looks good?" asked Donna Johnigan, a resident of B.W. Cooper, her voice trembling. "It's about being able to walk into a little house and be able to say this is a house, it ain't a project. What we've got to demand is better housing."

This is an excerpt from a Los Angeles Times story. You can read the entire article here. This is but one example of the slant of such news stories. This was written by Jenny Jarve, a Los Angeles Times staff writer. I just want to note the liberal slant of the story.
She clearly states an opinion that some of the houses that the city of New Orleans wants to demolish were "barely damaged" by Katrina.
How does she know that?
Is she quoting a housing inspector or some reliable city source?
Who knows?
Or is this just the hub-bub of the angry "poor" who are expressing their entitlement to housing paid for with tax money?
Who Knows?
She also paints the sympathetic picture by quoting a preacher who talks about people wandering about with bags and no place to live.
I don't know how true this story is because, it seems to me, this belongs on the Opnion page instead of as a news story. There is little relevant, salient fact to back up the opinion of this so-called "journalist".
Journalists should report facts, not opinion, period.