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No Side Businesses for Journalism

Saturday, July 11, 2009

A journalist’s first loyalty is to the public. That’s the only way to meet the ethical demands of the primary purpose of journalism: To give citizens the information they need to be free and self-governing.

Andrew Alexander, ombudsman for the Washington Post, examines the paper’s recent influence-peddling scandal — an “ethical lapse of monumental proportions.”

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