Traditionally a journalist was someone who contributed articles to what we now know as magazines. They wrote something that was more than fiction in that it addressed the concerns of their lives and times but which, at the same time, was scarcely objective. In time, as newspapers evolved from broadsheets filled with classified ads to news sheets, news began to be written by professional reporters who were either eye witnesses to the events reported, or interviewed eye witnesses as soon as possible after the event. As newspapers began to compete with one another for readers a focus on objectivity in reporting developed. Readers expected accurate accounts of events, a bare narrative from which they could draw their own conclusions. In this way news reporters came to be distinguished from columnists who were permitted a degree of latitude in the interpretation they placed on the facts and the extent to which their own opinions might enter into the account. The reputation and credibility of a newspaper, however, depends as always on the accuracy of its news reporting, the what, how, when and where of events. Theirs is not to reason why ...
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:58:55 +0000
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