Literally all journalism is opinion journalism. There's no unbiased way to record any story where the word "why" must at any point be asked. The desire of some well-meaning but foolish people to hold journalism to that standard gives cover to the ones who will adopt that cloak of impartiality and use it to lie to you.
What? The goal of journalism according to whom? Because Tom Wolfe--from whom a very large chunk of modern journalists can be said to descend--would laugh at that notion. There's also the natural fallout of "impartial journalism" having that imprint; Chomsky and others have noted that it leads to a massive endorsement of moneyed and powerful parties in most cases at which you'll point. Which may be fine for you, but certainly not me.
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (born March 2, 1931)[1]
is an American author and journalist, best known for his
association and influence over the New Journalism literary
movement in which literary techniques are used in objective
even-handed journalism.
The term "objective even-handed journalism" is a link to another Wikipedia article, which begins:
Journalistic objectivity is a significant principle of
journalistic professionalism. Journalistic objectivity can refer
to fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship,
but most often encompasses all of these qualities.
Looking over this, it seems that he editorialized and opined on a great many subjects, but those appear at least to have been contained to essays, novels and opinion pieces.
I'll freely confess not knowing the man, or his work, and only know what's contained in and linked from the Wiki articles, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but to the idea that he would laugh at journalistic objectivity seems off to me, from what I'm reading.
The reporter has a right to his opinion. The jury has a right to theirs. We have a right to ours.
None of that excuses opinion journalism masquerading as journalism.