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The role of the press to be a "watchdog" and monitor a government's actions has been one of the fundamental components of a democratic society.Ettema and Glasser (1998) argue that watchdog journalism's most important role is that their "stories implicitly demand the response of public officials". [6]
The Society of Professional Journalists first created its own code of ethics in 1973, which has been revised four times, most recently in 2014. [3] The SPJ code features four principles of ethical journalism: Seek Truth and Report It "Journalists should be honest, fair, and courageous in gathering, reporting, and interpreting information ...
Trump may in fact have been a candidate unfit for office, a point I have made more than once. But the idea that the media refused “to explore Trump’s manifest defects” is preposterous to the ...
IGs are the so-called “watchdogs” inside federal agencies. Their job is to prevent and detect waste, fraud and abuse inside their agencies through fair, objective and independent oversight.
The report argued that since journalists considered themselves to be centrists, "perhaps this is why an earlier survey found that they tended to vote for Bill Clinton in large numbers." FAIR uses this study to support the claim that media bias is propagated down from the management and that individual journalists are relatively neutral in their ...
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan issued a broad defense of her industry on Monday, writing that journalists “should be proud” of their coverage of the Trump-Russia story. The ...
See themselves as watchdogs of elites (skeptical and critical attitude). Less interventionist than their counterparts in other milieus. Opposed to the idea of supporting official policies. Least likely to advocate for social change, influence public opinion and set the political agenda. Most ‘prototypical’ milieu of western journalist.
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