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[Tue, 18 May 2004]
LA Times Editor on Journalistic Ethics
Its an awesome article, read it in its entirety. Just a few tid-bits:
"I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity."
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"All across America, there are offices that resemble newsrooms, and in those offices there are people who resemble journalists, but they are not engaged in journalism. What they do is not journalism because it does not regard the reader or, in the case of broadcasting, the listener or the viewer as a master to be served."
"In this realm of pseudo-journalism, the audience is regarded as something to be manipulated. And when the audience is misled, no one in the pseudo-newsroom ever offers a peep of protest."
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"We live in changed times. Never has falsehood in America had such a large megaphone."
He was talking about Fox News- who else! On a related note, here is an anguished article bemoaning The Times of India's fall in standards. TOI, atleast the web edition, really really sucks these days.