Thomas Baekdal on Nostr: Always remember that the role of journalism isn't to do 'both sides', but to find out ...
Always remember that the role of journalism isn't to do 'both sides', but to find out what actually happened. Or as one of my favorite quotes says:
"If one person says it's raining, and another person says it's not. Our job, as journalists, isn't to cover what these people said, but to look out the window and see what is actually going on.
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