In my four years in the journalism school, if I were even a lazy student, there were two key principles of journalism I knew were do withouts.
The most essential has to do with fact checking and checking again principle that's necessary for accurate publications.
I learnt secondly that, when a media house get something wrong, it does not come attacking its audiences of their independent observations and commentaries. Invariably however, it upholds it journalistic standards of core principles to accepting to have committed errors by circumvention of issues or amendment of situations and apologize accordingly.
The football adage that "the best way to defend is to attack" does not have a resting place in journalism.
The fact that the media is said to have been the fourth estate of government does not presupposes its infallibility. The media just like the Electoral Commission is certainly bound to making mistakes.
Therefore the speed at which it embraces applausdy, commendations and awards, must not be different from one that they must use to receive criticisms and a few backlashes for poor work done on few occasions.
Accepting one's mistakes does not kill nor apologizing hurts.
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