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"not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased."
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"The quality of not being biased or prejudiced; fairness"
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"...free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness."
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"We want objective judges. We want objective juries... We want doctors to be objective... We want scientists to be objective... Journalists should insist on it for ourselves as well."
Martin Baron
Collision of Power
Page 465
" To give news impartially, without fear or favor."
Adolph Ochs, 1858-1935
Publisher, New York Times 1896-1935
Journalists should pursue "As impartial an investigation of the facts as humanly possible."
Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press
Nothing is more sacred to us than the readers' trust in us to tell the truth, to be accurate, fair and impartial. We must be free of conflicts of interest. As journalists, we cannot simply use these standards as slogans; they must be a living truth evident in everything we say, do, and print. Any failure, by any one of us, to follow these journalistic truths undermines the credibility of our newspaper as an entity, of each of us as individuals and of our craft.
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