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The Extinction of Journalistic Integrity: A Blog's Purpose

We live in a time of misinformation.

There was once a time when we depended on the news media to keep us up-to-date and informed. That Media has now neglected their responsibility to give the masses truthful and unbiased reporting.  Now they feed their audience a diet of propaganda to sway public opinion, fuel disinformation and divide the public that they are responsible for informing. This is in direct interference with what all journalists are taught.  Journalism students are taught that their occupation is a responsibility to the public, and it should not be abused.

The Journalist's Creed was written by Walter Williams in 1914 and is supposed to be a guiding principle that all journalists follow.  Somehow in a short century, journalistic integrity has become a novelty, instead of the standard.

The Journalist's Creed

• I believe in the profession of journalism.
• I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.
• I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.
• I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.
• I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.
• I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.
• I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.
• I believe that the journalism which succeeds best — and best deserves success — fears God and honors Man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.

Sadly, younger generations do not remember a time when the news was written to give you the facts and not to sway you to believe one thing or another. They have never seen or experienced true journalistic integrity and do not know what a well non-biased news article looks like, or to even expect it.

The journalist's Creed is being abused and it's time we demand better from the people who are supposed to tell us the unbiased truth. While I am only one woman, I am going to use this blog to identify injustices, misrepresentations, and lies the media tells us to manipulate us and divide us.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist%27s_Creed