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Newspapers have a journalistic duty to be impartial Actually, they don't: journalism's duty is to be truthful, not impartial: if somebody lies, it's the journa
by MaysonL 16y ago
Newspapers have a journalistic duty to be impartial
Actually, they don't: journalism's duty is to be truthful, not impartial: if somebody lies, it's the journalist's duty to show that they're lying, not to do the he-said, she-said tango.
- philwelch 16y agoJournalism's duty is to be truthful and impartial--truthful on matters of fact, impartial on matters of opinion. From there it gets complicated, of course.
- VBprogrammer 16y agoJournalism's duty is to sell newspapers. Anything else is a tertiary concern.
- philwelch 16y agoOf course, but I addressed that in my original post.
- wake_up_sticky 16y agoThis is just not true. Journalism is about finding and exposing the truth, not about being impartial.