Loyalty/Journalism as a Profession
I think everyone can agree that a journalist’s loyalty lies with the citizens. It is part of the definition of “journalism.” To report the all of the news truthfully for the sake of the citizens, so that they can be aware of what’s going on around them. If journalists were reporting the news for their bosses or their advertisers, the news would be skewed. When the riots in Egypt were going on and one network decided to stop covering that to introduce their new iPad product, “The Daily,” that was the network working for themselves, not journalists. Because even if they weren’t covering it on tv, there was still a reporter from that network stationed in Egypt, getting news from citizens and reporting it to our citizens. That reporter was doing it for the sake of keeping citizens informed, not because their boss thought it would be good competition against the other networks (obviously not since they showed the ad for The Daily instead).
