By Jeremy Bransten
Radio Free Europe
Published on 3/19/2004
Excerpt:
Aly Colón teaches ethics at the respected Poynter Institute for journalists in the United States. He echoed De Waal’s comments. “You can gather the information — in other words, you can take information from witnesses who were on the scene. But I also think it’s best to make sure that you know all the information you possibly can gather at that time so that you can put it in some sort of context — so that people can see it from a variety of perspectives, to have a fuller picture of what’s going on. Just one source is only one piece of the story — not an unimportant one, not necessarily one that’s not factual, but you need as much detail as you can so that people can see this in perspective,” Colón said.
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