The Ideal Journalist (7)
The Ideal Journalist (7)¹
In this section, we will publish every week a simple note or a piece of advice… concerned with idealism in journalistic work.
The ideal journalist does not lie, nor does he fabricate news on his own…
He does not change the truth, nor distort it by addition or deletion, so that it may appear in the image he wants, and not in its realistic form.
His news is the sound reality, not an arrangement from his own mind by which he pleases some people, or attacks other people.
And in narrating events, he does not exaggerate in a manner that takes the matter out of its truth, leaving an unsound effect.
The ideal journalist does not publish in the manner of half-truths or parts of truths, because concealing parts of the truths may distort them.
Publishing the truth stripped of purpose places the journalist in a position of trust. For if the journalist departs from the truth, people’s trust in him and in what he publishes is shaken.
¹ An article by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III – Al-Keraza Magazine – Sixth Year – Issue Forty-Four – 31-10-1975
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