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What is truth?

What is truth?. SPJ Code of Ethics: Seek Truth and Report It. RTDNA Broadcasters Code: Strive to present news in a way that is balanced, accurate and fair. Reject sensationalism or misleading emphasis in any form.

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What is truth?

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  1. What is truth?

  2. SPJ Code of Ethics:Seek Truth and Report It

  3. RTDNA Broadcasters Code:Strive to present news in a way that is balanced, accurate and fair. Reject sensationalism or misleading emphasis in any form.

  4. PRSA Core Principle:Protecting and advancing the free flow of accurate and truthful information is essential to serving the public interest and contributing to informed decision making in a democratic society.

  5. AAAA:We will not knowingly create advertising that contains false or misleading statements or exaggerations, visual or verbal

  6. What is memorable and is handed down Ancient Greeks

  7. What abides in the world of perfect forms Plato

  8. What the king, Church, or God says Medieval

  9. What emerges from the “marketplace of ideas” Milton

  10. What is verifiable, replicable, universal Enlightenment

  11. What is filtered through individual perception Pragmatist

  12. OBJECTIVITY:A mechanism that allows journalists to divorce fact from opinion.

  13. Journalists use objectivity to filter out their own personal biases to influence what they report or how they cover it

  14. Objectivity also allows news to be read by people with multiple political opinions.

  15. Questions that challenge objectivity

  16. Who writes the news matters

  17. “For the most part, we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see.” Walter Lippmann

  18. News is a manufactured product, with storylines, narratives, characters and graphics.

  19. Ethical news values:AccuracyTenacityDignityReciprocity

  20. SufficiencyEquityCommunity Diversity

  21. Challenges for print journalists:Choice of storiesChoice of placementNewseum Front Pages

  22. More challenges:Choice of headlineChoice of photograph(Elian Gonzalez example)

  23. Challenges, continued:Choice of lead and frameChoice of sourcesNew York TimesLos Angeles TimesSan Francisco Chronicle

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