5 Ethics, law and free speech
If news instinct as born were turned loose in any newspaper office without the control of sound judgement bred by experience and training, the results would be much more pleasing to the lawyers than the editor
Joseph Pulitzer
North American Review, 1904
In an ideal world journalists would work out of motivation and idealism for the truth, and journalism ethics would be about aspirations and goals rather than minimum standards. Such green-light ethics are seen by some as encouraging journalists to view the decision-making process as a moral obligation to create an informed readership with honest, ethical news and information. The difficulty is that ethical journalists first need to be moral journalists; and to ...
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