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Instead of speaking truth to power, the media class speaks power’s truth.

Nesrine Malik • We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom

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Valuing context. We recognize that our job is not simply to accurately record a series of facts, but to provide those facts in a form that is coherent and meaningful, empowering our reader to place a given event or development in concert with other current events and with history.

A Test of the News

The choice of material to go into a newspaper, and the decisions made as to limitations on the size and content of the paper, and treatment of public issues and public officials—whether fair or unfair—constitute the exercise of editorial control and judgment. It has yet to be demonstrated how governmental regulation of this crucial process can be... See more

Rereading “Editorial Discretion”

For all our infamous failings, journalists once had some toughness to them. We were supposed to be willing to go to jail for sources we might not even like, and fly off to war zones or disaster areas without question when editors asked. It was also once considered a virtue to flout the disapproval of colleagues to fight for stories we believed in... See more

Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi

Journalism, according to G.K. Chesterton in the 1920s, ‘largely consists in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive’.

Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain

It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as

G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]

If you work in a newsroom right now you’re probably witnessing or participating in a raging debate over the role journalists should be playing that could end up being very consequential.

Edmund Lee 🐿️ 🗞️x.com

Play with the quotes by all means—selecting, rejecting, thinning, transposing their order, saving a good one for the end. Just make sure the play is fair. Don’t change any words or let the cutting of a sentence distort the proper context of what remains. Do I literally mean “don’t change any words”? Yes and no. If a speaker chooses his words