Journalistic Rules

2 May 2002

Journalistic Rules


Tonight, as I was going through my news aggregator, I stumbled into some filth from a site that I had previously subscribed to because of other topics. The filth I got was so bad that it will make me question anything else I get from that individual on any subject.
I’ve posted this before: The Constitutions First Amendment allows the media to print or say almost anything. Journalisms First Principle should require that the media be scrupulous in deciding what that will be. It’s from Warren Buffett’s 2000 letter to shareholders.
New found personal publishing freedoms ought to be subject to this same principle!

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