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Show M journalists aren't, f funny bone at to get conservatives y , MARY COONS ; u know what? Recently I at t 3 Plitician who said :J"e. nation's press is ultra snL 1 there is some kind of y """in conservative iT!?ants- il m'ght i Hit f ,er Parts of the country, 0tw!th those that I have V with here in the west. Htumber one ru'e. as vou ?row- is when we write a v" svjj0"1.3 meeting that we have W 'V,8 our responsibility to Jl th total objectivity. We ' .notgods. Most of us are not even editors. We are just performing a public service in attending public meetings that most of the public does not attend, and reporting on what happened. ' Most of us, here in Utah, are of a brand of freelancers that write in our homes, and deliver the written word to the papers. I, personally, have never felt any pressure to write with any political tilt. Conversely, all of my editors, from the Pleasant Grove Review to the Deseret News insist upon objectivity. Lastly, please understand that we, as journalists don't have little secret meetings in each other's basements, planning the downfall of everything from the downtown of Pleasant Grove to the U.S. Government. We are truly and, I feel extraordinarily, interested in local and national government. If, as the politician said, there is a large group of journalists that write with a political tilt in their straight stories, they are not true journalists for it is our job to report to the public what has really happened. We area looselv knit bunch of people that care about the written word, and the truth. That's it. 1 |