http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/feature/296 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:16:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthink.com/features/296 For me the key thing is "objectivity" meaning based on fact or evidence, as opposed to impartia lity, an absence of bias. If journalism is evidence led, with the information supporting a journalists view laid out for the public to agree or disagree with its fine. An opinion in the absence of any supporting material is - for me - worthless. Bigthink Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:56:52 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/features/296/#13443 http://www.bigthink.com/features/296 I wish more journalists understood that their job is to sort out good information from bad rather than just presenting it all. Of course, in the sorting, there are judgment calls to be made about what's good and what's bad, and that process should include some rules that can be communicated to news consumers. I'm not sure if there was a point in time when citizens could ever trust journalistic standards and integrity, but we know that, right now, we can't really. Like we do in government, we need more transparency in the news. I think it's coming but very slowly and reticently. Bigthink Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:28:01 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/features/296/#11446