Re:When Papers Quit Calling Waterboarding 'Torture'
by philwelch on Thursday July 01, 2010 @05:37PM
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Journalism'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.
Re:When Papers Quit Calling Waterboarding 'Torture'
by wake_up_sticky on Saturday July 03, 2010 @12:02PM
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This is just not true. Journalism is about finding and exposing the truth, not about being impartial.
Re:When Papers Quit Calling Waterboarding 'Torture'
by VBprogrammer on Thursday July 01, 2010 @06:45PM
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Journalism's duty is to sell newspapers. Anything else is a tertiary concern.
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.