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You're going to have to explain how a journalist doing fact checking is unethical.

• seanmcdirmid 8y ago
  In a court of law, the judge isn’t allowed to do independent research unlike what you might have seen in the movies, they are simply allowed to listen to arguments on both sides and make a decision based on law. A news article is like that in a court of public opinion where the public is the judge and the reporter is merely there to report on both sides of the argument, not supposed to be doing research on their own, it is up to the other side to fact check and add that to their argument, it isn’t the reporter’s job or even their place ethically. There is definitely room for reporters doing fact checking and more involved investigative journalism, just not in that kind of article.