Facts are truths about our reality. They are the ideas that we believe and that shape our views.
As Journalists our job is to communicate the truth to the public. The public trusts that the information that we are giving them is accurate.
Why would we want to deceive anyone into believing something that is false?
As Christians we should always walk in the light. All truth is God's truth. Anything that is not truth is not of God. So by writing false facts we would not be following God.
Besides the moral wrong of false facts, there are consequences to writing fabricated facts in the Journalism industry. As the movie Shattered Glass shows, a Journalists credibility is diminished by this. Their career is even put on the line if the case is big enough.
Fact checking is crucial and fabrication of facts should never be done.
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