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Prompt: Is honesty always the best policy?
Honesty is one of the most important moral that everyone has been taught to respect and follow. It is the base of trust, which is the connection among people’s relationships. Honesty applies to not only people, but also careers such as journalism. For a newspaper, it is important for it to be honest.
Newspapers are born with honesty. People get news and information through newspapers. What people learn from them are all facts. If an American journalist reports news of recent political events, he must write about the facts. This is where the honesty takes place. When he writes about facts, he must be honest. For instance, he reports a poll which shows American citizens are more favored to Barrack Obama than John McCain to be the new president of the United States, he must report the fact. If he addresses his own opinion in his report by saying McCain is more favored, he violates the duty to be a journalist, who writes facts. He steals the right of American citizens to know the truth. Knowing the lie, readers will possibly not buy the newspapers and criticize the journalist, who may lose his job because of that. Because newspapers play such an important role to tell people truth, journalists have the responsibility and obligation to be honest.
However, many newspapers lied before. During World War Two, many British newspapers reported falsed news about the war. They just reported how gloriously the British soldiers returned and how great the victories they had, but did not report the true situation of the war. Someone might claim that sometimes newspapers were forced to lie since the true fact could affect the stability of the country. But is honesty the best policy? It still is. The newspapers should not steal people’s right to know truth. Instead of reporting purely good lies, those journalists should write about true news such as how many lands the Germans had occupied and how severe the European situation was. Even though people might panic after reading the news, it’s their obligation to either remain calm or to take action. For newspapers, fact is everything and honesty is what they live with.
In light of the above examples, it is clear that journalists should be honest to write their newspapers. Ignoring the stability of their nations, they needed to write what fact they know. It is their duty to provide people right to know truth, but not steal it.
[[i] 本帖最后由 fcym92321 于 2008-7-19 03:13 编辑 [/i]]
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