Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.
The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.
Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
Fairness is what justice really is.
How do you make things fair?
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Fairness is not about statistical equality.