**The Ideal Journalist (8)**¹

In this section, we will publish every week a simple note or advice… concerned with idealism in journalistic work.
The ideal journalist has one path: clear, fixed, not shifting from one side to another, and not wavering.
His opinion today is the same opinion he had yesterday, and it is the same opinion tomorrow… his personal relationships do not change his opinions, nor do they alter his principles.
Personal interests do not affect his principles.
You read for him and see a steady thought, all its details harmonious and consistent, forming one whole with no contradiction in it. Thus you feel that he is a man of thought and a man of principle, and that he walks on a straight path with no crookedness in it.

¹ An article by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III – in Al-Keraza Magazine – Sixth Year – Issue Forty-Five, 7–11–1975.

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