If fact, it appears the left read through the ethics guidelines and strive to do the opposite.
You want to see a deep state propagandist's face go white ask them, "What are the four principals of ethical journalism?"
They won't be able to come up with one of them.
I was in SPJ when I worked in the Scribbling Profession.
The cynicism of fellow reporters helped drive me away...
All it would take is to start expelling people who don’t meet these standards and this organization could save journalism.
Any professional code of ethics, like a trial jury, is based on personal sense of right and wrong—call it God if you want. That notion or sense of right and wrong has left the latest generations. They feel only politics and will bend any oath necessary to advance politics.
No kidding. An astute writer, with the time, could write their real code, one by one after each point.
Modern day journalists are just a member of the sector of the Democrat propaganda machine
Yep. Sounds all well and good.
Too bad that there seems to be so very few who take these positions to heart.
Somebody ought to set up an organization for journalist like the Jewish ADL. Set it up during the Trump Adm. and get established as reliable.
Journalists....do they undergo regular continuing education?
Journalists Code of Ethics?
Izzat one or two meaningless sentences?
I think there are two other elements of ethical journalism not mentioned here, and both are _totally_ missing from today’s journalism.
(1) Don’t use the same sources over and over. Have sources that disagree with each other so that multiple views are represented in the story. Don’t just find the Democratic view and the Republican view—find _multiple_ views, the real world is not binary. Go beyond the obvious—don’t use the same sources other reporters are using. Find new ones—find truly independent sources. Don’t forget to talk to the “little people” in any organization, not just the PR flaks or the bosses. Promise them confidentiality if the organization forbids talking to reporters. (That means you have to develop a history of honesty and trustworthiness—otherwise no independent source will put their meal ticket at risk talking to you.)
(2) Research truly new stories—develop _real_ expertise on subject matters that interest you. Do independent research—and find out who is lying on the subject and why they are lying.