This text discusses the forms of selection of information and production of news stories. For its authors, the central question in this respect is what it means to say that news reports are true. In other words, what are the criteria and values corresponding to stories seen as true. The analysis is part of the wider discussion on the relationships of values to facts in journalism. Objectivity is seen as a device to legitimate some discourses and allows for the presentation of opinions as facts. It results from negotiations about the values that are the assumptions of opinions. Moral standards that are at the foundations of news productions become facts that may, then, be reported with exemption.
journalism; objectivity; moral standards; information selection; truth