Week 2: Student Response to Discussion One and Two

ThursdayJan 18 at 7:02pm

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After reading the Appendixes 1,2,3 and 4 in the textbook, I picked up on the theme of honesty being pretty much the most important part of being a journalist. When a journalist does not write the truth, there can be many consequences. The public relies on us to get the truth out to them. They rely on us to write stories that are not fabricated, but are honest and truthful. The readers don’t need to wonder whether we are providing credible information. It's our job to provide that sense of dependability.

Also, another theme I picked up on was giving credit where credit is due. I can write a story all day with just stating my opinion, but what would that do for the reader? I need to provide facts in my stories and in order to do so I need to provide proper credit to where I got my information from. I never really paid much attention to providing proper sources until I got into college. I'm so grateful that I picked up that, because I will definitely need it in this career. Also, I did notice there was more emphasis on some codes compared to others, but I think it is up to the writer to pick which ones need to be held to the highest extent when writing news stories. Of course, there will always be codes that are more deemed more important than others. I don’t agree with this at all. I feel all the codes are to be treated equally.

Heather Chavez

Jacquette, D. (2007). Journalistic ethics: Moral responsibility in the media. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc.