February 1999 index Ilyce R. Glink, president Chicago Headline Club Credibility begins with telling the truth September 1998 Club awards recognize profession's best e said. And now it's up to the journalist covering the story to make sense of it all and tell the readers, viewers, or listeners what they need to know.
Most journalists take their jobs seriously.
They interview fairly and write the story evenly. Some don't, however, and the few bad apples without ethics tend to give our profession its occasional black eye. But as we've seen over the years, the lines between entertainment and journalism have been crossing more frequently. We see it on the network morning news shows, which seem to switch back and forth between the news division and the entertainment division with some regularity. The lines blur for all of us, and we cope the best we can.