By Alexandra Marks
The Christian Science Monitor
Published on 5/12/2004
Excerpt:
“The best role of a journalist is to expose the worst about ourselves as a country and as a people,” says Al Tompkins, a former editor and now journalism teacher at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. “It’s a holding up of a mirror. And the only thing worse than the photos themselves would be if they never came to public light.”
Truth-telling, however painful, Mr. Tompkins says, is “the best first step … toward a cure for abusive behavior” and the primary role of all journalists.
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