This class will be interesting today because we shall be discussing journalists\u2019 integrity as they go gather and report the news.<\/p>\n
And you must not forget that integrity cuts across trustworthiness, honesty, uprightness and truthfulness.<\/p>\n
You report the news – you do not comment on it. \u00a0How? Cover the story, report the facts and stick to them. Do you get that class?<\/p>\n
The facts you choose to include and\/or exclude can amount to editorializing. Always tell both sides of a story fairly.<\/p>\n
Beware of subconscious or unconscious preferences. We all have them. They can slip into our copy without us realizing it.<\/p>\n
Take this as an example \u201cThe first Lady made a strong case for universal health care coverage.\u201d Here you can see that the writer has used his\/her opinion by using the word \u2018strong\u2019 rather than saying \u201cthe first Lady made an emphatic case for universal health care coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Please after today\u2019s class, endeavour to preach it out to your colleagues that straight news stories dishonors the use of opinions.<\/p>\n
We all have personal biases. Know them and strive to keep them in check.<\/p>\n
Try to portray each side of the story as objectively and as accurately as humanly possible. Always give each side of the story for every controversial issue.<\/p>\n
Postmodernists may argue there is no such thing as perfect objectivity.<\/p>\n
Well, there may be no such thing as a perfect circle, either.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s a big difference between objective and subjective news writing.<\/p>\n
You can always be objective enough. Just be fair. Tell both sides of the story.<\/p>\n
A word for the wise is sufficient. Follow what is said in this class and see if you can put them to practice. See in our nest class.<\/p>\n
Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n This class will be interesting today because we shall be discussing journalists\u2019 integrity as they go gather and report the news. And you must not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[8747],"class_list":["post-24889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-journalist-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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