The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time and instantly by disclosing them to make them the common property of the nation. The press lives by disclosures ... bound to tell the truth as we find it without fear of consequences - to lend no convenient shelter to acts of injustice and oppression, but to consign them to the judgement of the world ... the duty of the journalist is the same as that of the historian - to seek out truth, above all things, and to present to his readers not such things as statecraft would wish them to know, but the truth as near as he can attain it.
Taken from Louw. E, The Media and the Political Process, Sage Publications, London, 2005.
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