<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> A good reporter who is well - steeped in his subject matter and who isn't out to prove his cleverness, but rather is sweating out a detailed understanding of a topic worth exploring, will probably develop intelligent opinions that will inform and perhaps be expressed in his journalism . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Timothy Noah, 1999 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> A good reporter who is well - steeped in his subject matter and who isn't out to prove his cleverness, but rather is sweating out a detailed understanding of a topic worth exploring, will probably develop intelligent opinions that will inform and perhaps be expressed in his journalism . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Timothy Noah, 1999 </Td> </Tr> <P> Brent Cunningham suggests that reporters should understand their inevitable biases, so they can explore what the accepted narratives may be, and then work against these as much as possible . He points out that "(w) e need deep reporting and real understanding, but we also need reporters to acknowledge all that they don't know, and not try to mask that shortcoming behind a gloss of attitude, or drown it in a roar of oversimplified assertions". </P>

Who said that the ideal of journalism was the communication of truth