If you cannot approach journalism with objectivity, you are being unfair to your audience, to your subject, to your profession (which people increasingly distrust because of this), and to yourself. You have turned yourself into someone who writes bad short fiction “based on a true story”. A glorified Tumblr blogger or Fanfiction writer.
Objectivity is fairness.
If you cannot approach journalism with objectivity, you are being unfair to your audience, to your subject, to your profession (which people increasingly distrust because of this), and to yourself. You have turned yourself into someone who writes bad short fiction “based on a true story”. A glorified Tumblr blogger or Fanfiction writer.