All is not relative: Essential shared values and the press

Journal of Mass Media Ethics 3 (1):28 – 32 (1988)
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Abstract

Reporters and editors share values. If there were no shared values essential to the practice of journalism, it would be impossible to distinguish a journalist from other mass communicators. The set of journalistic values provides the base for an argument that journalists are pluralists, not relativists

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