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Forum Post: For your consideration on Journalism. Sign it if you like it.

Posted 12 years ago on March 15, 2012, 2:09 p.m. EST by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN
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Dan, click here to sign the petition thanking National Public Radio for formally disavowing "he said, she said" journalism in favor of journalism that is fair to the truth.

Too many news outlets seem to consider it their job to tell the competing sides of any given story, instead of focusing on reporting the truth. No matter how unsupported by the facts one side may be, this widespread "he said, she said" journalism is how, for example, climate change deniers are treated seriously in the media.

In a positive move, National Public Radio recently issued new editorial guidelines rejecting this false balance. Disavowing the worst excesses of "he said, she said" journalism, NPR's new code of ethics states that "if the balance of evidence in a matter of controversy weighs heavily on one side, we acknowledge it in our reports." This is an important step to curing what has become an endemic plague of false "fairness" in American journalism.

Please, click here to sign the petition thanking NPR for this decision. We will send them the signatures.

Keep fighting, Chris Bowers, Daily Kos

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[-] 2 points by Marlow (1141) 12 years ago

Signed it from Twitter this morning.. TY... RT'd too!

[+] -5 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

You are definitely one of our BEST - Marlow.

Spread the word people.

Support GOOD COMMON CAUSE.

We will move forward - Together.

[+] -5 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Support the end of yellow journalism.