"Objectivity" In Reporting

Uganda: New Conflict in the Media Business

Objectivists will argue that you don't know for a fact the person killing, raping, and abducting people in northern Uganda. Good journalists, objectivists insist, should report facts, not their value judgement

Traditionally, the role of a journalist in a conflict situation has been that of a disinterested conduit of information.

Journalists have idealised that role with the title - Objectivity.

...Good journalists, objectivists insist, should report facts, not their value judgement. In pursuit of objectivity, therefore, a journalist should report Kony's denial as forcefully as the accusations against him.

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