re: #699 reine.de.tout

Yes, they report what’s being said.
And they report what the other side responds.
With no editorializing about it (except by the editorial staff, or the investigative reporters).

Well, at least that was the way it was taught to me when I was in journalism school; and it’s the way my dad operated. Things are obviously different now.

Wow. Well, I don’t agree. I think if there’s a debate between a Holocaust denier and a historian of the Holocaust, the reporter has an absolute duty to report that Holocaust denial is based in lies. I don’t think presenting both sides is any sort of real objectivity.

If someone is reporting on Iran’s claims that they have no gay people in their country, I would like to see the reporter state how incredibly unlikely that is, or tie in the oppression of gays in Iran against that.

When someone lies, I feel it is the duty of a reporter to expose that lie.