re reliable and necessary sources for citizens. Being fair does not essentially provide societies with all the evidence they need to govern their lives. Therefore, truth and accuracy are regarded as far more important than interpretation and analysis.
             All journalists agree that the desire for information to be truthful is vital to society as we know "Journalism's first obligation is to the truth." (Kovach and Rosenstiel pg. 37) When Lyndon Johnson sent Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to Vietnam to find out what was really going on there, McNamara reported to America through several press conferences overseas that everything was going well. However a couple years later, secret documents were found compiled with information of how McNamara really felt about the war and what he really reported back to President Johnson. When these papers, known as the Pentagon papers of 1971 were released, the government tried to stop them from being published because they had a great impact on national security. Howe
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