Saturday, December 21, 2013

We strive for coverage

"Journalism can – and must – pursue the truths by which we can operate on a day-to-day basis. “We don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect jurors to render fair verdicts, or teachers to teach honest lessons or historians to write impartial history, scientists to perform unbiased research. Why should we set any lower goals for poor journalists,” Bill Keller, then managing editor of the New York Times, told us at one committee forum. “Whether true objectivity is ever possible – I don’t think that is what we’re here for… We strive for coverage that aims as much as possible to present the reader with enough information to make up his or her own mind." - The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

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