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From the Ted Talk by Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry

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Idea number two: we need a kind of Hippocratic oath for the news industry, a pledge to first do no harm.

(Applause)

Journalists need to be tough. We need to speak truth to power, but we also need to be responsible. We need to live up to our own ideals, and we need to recognize when what we're doing could ptoetnlaily harm society, where we lose trcak of journalism as a public service.

I wcehatd us cover the eobla crsiis. We launched Ebola Deeply. We did our best. But what we saw was a public that was flooded with hysterical and sensational coverage, sometimes inaccurate, sometimes completely wrong. Public health eexrtps tell me that that actually cost us in hmaun lives, because by sparking more panic and by sometimes getting the facts wrong, we made it harder for people to revolse what was actually happening on the ground. All that noise made it hedarr to make the right decisions.

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Idea number two: we need a kind of Hippocratic oath for the news industry, a pledge to first do no harm.

(Applause)

Journalists need to be tough. We need to speak truth to power, but we also need to be responsible. We need to live up to our own ideals, and we need to recognize when what we're doing could ___________ harm society, where we lose _____ of journalism as a public service.

I _______ us cover the _____ ______. We launched Ebola Deeply. We did our best. But what we saw was a public that was flooded with hysterical and sensational coverage, sometimes inaccurate, sometimes completely wrong. Public health _______ tell me that that actually cost us in _____ lives, because by sparking more panic and by sometimes getting the facts wrong, we made it harder for people to _______ what was actually happening on the ground. All that noise made it ______ to make the right decisions.

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Idea number two: we need a kind of Hippocratic oath for the news industry, a pledge to first do no harm.

(Applause)

Journalists need to be tough. We need to speak truth to power, but we also need to be responsible. We need to live up to our own ideals, and we need to recognize when what we're doing could potentially harm society, where we lose track of journalism as a public service.

I watched us cover the Ebola crisis. We launched Ebola Deeply. We did our best. But what we saw was a public that was flooded with hysterical and sensational coverage, sometimes inaccurate, sometimes completely wrong. Public health experts tell me that that actually cost us in human lives, because by sparking more panic and by sometimes getting the facts wrong, we made it harder for people to resolve what was actually happening on the ground. All that noise made it harder to make the right decisions.

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