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Sunday, January 25, 2004 

A matter of principle

CCJ writes:

"The central purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society."

I love these guys. They're the Committee of Concerned Journalists. They spent over five years interviewing other journalists in order to put together a coherent theory of journalism. I subscribe to that theory. It was actually that theory that made me decide to be a journalist.

A damn good summary of it can be found at the above link.