Is ‘buying news sources’ ethical? Not here
June 5th, 2009
Almost universally in journalism schools, professors teach you never to buy news or buy access to news makers. Never. Don’t do that. Yet, radio and television students dash out and go to work in their field and quickly follow their employers’ policies of buying the news. Obviously one of the reasons they do this is that these broadcasters are limited by the number of reporters in the “news center.” Broadcasters simply skimp on hiring reporters, and even then they seem to seek good looks more than intelligence.
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