Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somehow this works. Newsmen who are so cynical about everyone else's profession can be wonderfully naive about their own. They need to believe that there is such a thing as truth, and that they are the boys who search it out, and that, once printed, it can set men...
Gilbert, one of the two scientists on the panel, responded to the criticisms by saying that the types of situations to which the journalists were referring are isolated instances in the scientific profession.
Calling science a trade instead of a profession, two prominent journalists yesterday questioned the accuracy of the information scientific researchers give to the press.
"Science is actually a trade, not a profession," said Philip J. Hilts, who has been covering science and medicine for the Washington Post since 1980. At a forum held at the school of Public Health, which featured two journalists and two Harvard science professors, Hilts said, "The answer to whether...
The press increasingly finds itself in the position of being not only observer, but subject. The press is often unable to understand, however, that it has an obligation to report objectively even if the story concerns a journalist. To the extent that the press fails to live up to this...