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Last Wednesday, the Heisenberg Journalism Principle was on full display in a courtroom at the Queens County Courthouse, in New York.
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As Tony Harcup puts it in his Journalism, Principles and Practice: "The intro is crucial because it sets the tone for what follows.
And Famuan staff have been told they all must reapply for their positions and "undergo training in media law and ethics... [and] more general journalism principles".
It's a brilliant piece showing how good old-fashioned journalism principles are still meaningful for scoops in the digital age; there is a wealth of data on the Internet and conclusions to be made for those who spend the time and consult the right sources.
Journalism's first principle should require that the media be scrupulous in deciding what that will be".
But the point may get close to the real reason for Keller's disdain for Julian Assange -- because Assange and WikiLeaks represent a much purer commitment to the core tenets of journalism, including the principle of objectivity, than does the New York Times.
But stealing other people's R&D, artistic endeavour or even journalism is still theft.That principle is worth defending.
We have a similar principle in journalism: the process of reporting a story can sometimes affect the behavior of those being reported on.
The first principle of journalism - the one that rolls freedom, trust and duty together in a bumper bundle - is that journalists are not a breed apart.
If banks and car companies are now virtually arms of the U.S. government, why not extend the principle to journalism, where some practitioners are already virtually an arm of government in their affectionate reporting of the present U.S. administration?
(By the way, if you got this far, you disproved a principle of journalism. You see that headline: Worthy Canadian Initiative? Well, years ago, New Republic held a contest for the most boring headline in the world. And the winner was, you guessed it: Worthy Canadian Initiative. It even came from the New York Times Op-Ed page).
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