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The most important thing journalism can do in a dictatorship is to tell the truth.
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The quote says that when a government controls people through dictatorship, journalism’s central duty is honesty. Reporting the truth gives people accurate information instead of allowing power to hide or distort reality. It presents truth-telling as journalism’s most important contribution in that kind of political system.
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- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
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- Official Statement
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