There is no need to disturb deontology, professional ethics and journalistic morality. All fundamental things for those who do this profession, but evidently ended up forgotten. However, let’s talk about respect for the work of those who write in the newspaper, whether online or on paper, it doesn’t matter. All newspapers provide news, both have a code of ethics, a word that is difficult to understand. Nobody is series A or series B, readers choose where to look for news.
In the March 9 edition, the readers of PordenoneToday, first of all, read about the marriage of the mayor of Pordenone, Alessandro Basso with his partner Loris Bazzo. News that was evidently immediately picked up by all the media because, regardless of the considerations of merit, it was undoubtedly of interest for many and multifaceted reasons. However, no one bothered to cite the source. Where, in short, had he found the news.
We don’t consider ourselves the best on the market, the journalists who do their job every day know that news can come from a thousand sources and today we read it first on our pages, tomorrow on those of another newspaper. However, we are a serious newspaper and when we cover news that other newspapers have already reported, we always cite the source. We are not the first and we say, without any problem, who “was better than us”. However, at this point we also ask the same respect from other newspapers, local ones as well as national ones. If we respect each other as journalists, perhaps even those who read us have greater respect for a category that has great difficulty in being among the most credible.
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