Τετάρτη 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Discussion: How much personal information should a journalist disclose on a blog? What about personal opinions? Is anything off limits? Should journa

I believe that a journalist should gather as much as info can get to develop a story. He/she needs to be objective as much as he/she can. I think the limit starts when a journalist becomes the "subject" on his/her story. We, as journalist, are humans and we have "issues" as the rest of the people. However our profession is very important because we vocalize others lifes, suffers, pains, accidents, issues (social or political). Yes we do get involved somehow but when it comes to writing, saying, uploading, the story we need to be clear and accurate. Even if we write the story on blog. News is news whatver medium we use to deseminate it.
As for personal opinions, I think as journalist when we research and report a story we develop our own opinion of the "right or wrong" the "truth of lie" to the story. I think we can say our own opinion using "delicacy" in the language if i can be clear, besides we are the communication people and language is a very strong tool we have to use it with dignity.
As having an anonymous blog, I think it depends on what you want to create. Its how it started in newspapers years ago in the column world.

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