Comprehensive journalism can be defined as journalism that includes all perspective and sides of a story. Proportional journalism can be defined as journalism that is researched according to its news importance. Comprehensive journalism is a type of journalism that uses thorough research methods that incorporate different angles of the same story. Building a comprehensive type of journalism is central to reporting according to the National Press Photographers Association, http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/business_practices/ethics.html and states in the Code of Ethics that it is one of the primary responsibilities of a journalist. In order to report the “truth” a journalist must gather enough facts to present a realistic story, it must be comprehensive. The news must be kept proportional according to http://www.journalism.org/resources/principles in order to protect the truth. Keeping the news proportional means that all events must be portrayed as they are and specific elements should not be exaggerated to emphasize certain points. If facts are not represented as they exist in real life then it will give the story bias and will not be as credible. This blogspot author Everett http://everettshell.blogspot.com/2010/04/comprehensive-and-proportional.html says that readers want an emotional story, not an emotional journalist. Journalists have a duty to the truth and in order to be truthful they must have two elements in their reporting: comprehensive material and proportional events.
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