A journalist’s duty is to inform. Have western press forgotten this in Ukraine?

A journalist’s duty is to inform. Have western press forgotten this in Ukraine?

Whenever the public right to know comes under attack, a heavy responsibility falls on the journalist. When I was 17, my teacher told the class this salient information. Did the Western mainstream media learn it too or have they simply forgotten it?

“News is what someone wants to stop (you) from printing; all the rest is ads.”– William Randolph Hearst.