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DEFINITIONS

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DEFINITIONS

  • Definition of Objectivity

    "not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased."

    source: Dictionary.com

  • Definition of Impartiality

    "The quality of not being biased or prejudiced; fairness"

    source: Dictionary.com

  • definition of fairness

    "...free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness."

    source: Dictionary.com

quotes

  • from martin baron

    A man with a beard and glasses is wearing a suit and looking at the camera.

    "We want objective judges. We want objective juries... We want doctors to be objective... We want scientists to be objective... Journalists should insist on it for ourselves as well."


    Martin Baron 

    Collision of Power

    Page 465

  • from aldolf ochs

    portrait of Adolph Ochs

    " To give news impartially, without fear or favor."

    Adolph Ochs, 1858-1935

    Publisher, New York Times 1896-1935

  • from walter lippmann

    portrait of walter hussman

    Journalists should pursue "As impartial an investigation of the facts as humanly possible."

    Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974

policy statements

  • ethics policy

    From the Chattanooga Times Free Press

    Nothing is more sacred to us than the readers' trust in us to tell the truth, to be accurate, fair and impartial. We must be free of conflicts of interest. As journalists, we cannot simply use these standards as slogans; they must be a living truth evident in everything we say, do, and print. Any failure, by any one of us, to follow these journalistic truths undermines the credibility of our newspaper as an entity, of each of us as individuals and of our craft.