Blog #4: Chapter 4 Response, "Journalism of Vertification"

In the 1920s, Walter Lippman said that journalists should focus on "evidence and vertification." He's refering to how journalists should mainly focus on the evidence and verify it to maintain credibility. Some of his principles of reporting was to never add anything was not there, never decline the audience, be transparent as possible about your methods and motives and rely on your reporting. I agree with him because now in days many journalists write/report about random things and aren't reliable because of where they got the sources from. They don't validate their evidence. This could lead to bad journliasm for the public by misinforming them with false information. These journalists rely on misleading sources instead of creditable ones. According to Walter Lippman, "In journalism, only by explaining what we know can we approximate, the idea of people being able, if they were of mind, to replicate the reporting. This is what is meant by the objectivity of method in science and in journalism." Articles written by these journalists don't explain much on their reporting and don't elablorate much on it.