AThe Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 11
Professional Ethics in Journalism
“We do not take issue with the right of any individual in the working press to adopt whatever private political sympathies he chooses—as a private, individual citizen,” the statement said.
“However, that right does not extend to the public exhibition of those views by groups or persons who have chosen as a profession the unbiased communication of ideas and events.”
([Then why did professional ethics in journalism escape the handful of persons selected by the Soviet Union to cover the games in Reykjavik, Iceland? Too many examples of what amounts as nothing more than idle rumors cited as “fact,” and no effort to clarify to the contrary, that the report was biased, and not based on any measurable investigation. Failure to relay accurate accounts, such as blatant omission of important dynamics, particularly, that Iceland was notoriously ANTI-AMERICAN and vehemently racist, accounting for why Fischer's mentor and friend Archie Waters reports being the ONLY African American he was aware of, present in or anywhere near the Sports hall. Press reports are plagued with contradictions between competing press agencies, contorted details amounting to nothing more than vicious gossip about the lone rival of Soviet Imperialist machinery. Such politically-biased distortions as these, demonstrate those individuals were unworthy to be classed among their colleagues in “professional journalism”. They did a great disservice to the profession as well as the public they were employed to serve. When it came to reporting FACTS about Robert J. Fischer, and the tournament itself, the outcome amounted to nothing short of libelous defamation and along with it, made a great mockery of a once noble game.])
20 Jul 1972, Thu The Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Newspapers.com
