As people our natural instinct is to try and go above and beyond what we know.
To say more than the facts. But as journalists we write nothing but the facts we go in and come out without opinion or drama.
We need to focus on writing without slanting any of our facts and leaving it without the extra things that aren’t needed. You may not realize but when you write, most times you include opinions or points that may affect the reader’s thoughts on the issue.
When we try and dive into stories more we end up digging to deep into unknown waters, we then try to explain something we may not know well enough to do so. We a journalists need to stay on the surface and keep peoples attention by explaining the things we do know.
This all falls under journalism ethics.
There is so much information the public wants us to be able to sum up. In doing so we shouldn’t be changing the facts to make them more interesting or important but only using them to their extent. To inform the reader what has happened while they are interested before they want to move on.
