At the end of 2022, Mme Caillou wrote in The duty an excellent article on journalistic impartiality. She explained that during the annual convention of the FPJQ, the journalistic community had vigorously debated the question of the neutrality of journalists. So the question arises: should journalists refrain from supporting a political party or social movement and focus only on the facts? I think so.
Quite simply because we live in an era where public confidence in newspaper newsrooms is declining at lightning speed. A study by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford shows that public trust in Canadian news has dropped by 13% since 2016. Only 42% of respondents say they believe Canadian newspapers report truthful and objective facts. Additionally, it should be noted that this study is worrisome not only for the future of journalism, but also for the cynicism about our democratic institutions that it portends.
And I also show self-criticism: in the past, as I hope to become a journalist one day, I wrote several letters to several newspapers, which gave me the right to congratulations from my relatives, but in which I erred in presenting my own political opinions. In short, journalism should never rhyme with activism, particularly at a time when the confidence of Quebecers and Canadians is collapsing and when skepticism and cynicism occupy a growing place in the public arena.
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