Saturday, January 24, 2015

That should be apparent

"The idea that journalism can ever be completely free from the prejudices of its practitioners is a fiction, and the way to deliver trustworthy reporting is to be honest about what those prejudices are. “Everybody has an agenda in that they have things that they think are true and things that they think are important, and vice versa,” he says. “There’s a sort of pretence that it’s not so, and that’s fine, but one should also make clear in writing where one’s coming from. That should be apparent.”" (thanks Laure)