【正文】 following incident. A building in a marginal district, whose proprietor was absent, had remained during several days without heating, to a temperature near the zero degrees. The proprietor declared to have sent to somebody to fix the boiler at those same moments. When Smith, the premises head, telephoned to the building, nobody was working to repair the heating, fact that Smith added to the information of the reporter who covered the event. When verifying history, Jones, the section director, called to its subordinate Smith so that it was put in contact with more renters of the building to increase the number of names mentioned in the information. Jones said: If you obtain to me m225。 they explain mainly to profane the dangers of the judgments by defamation. Speaking on their own experiences in defamation judgments, the journalists affirmed that its behavior had been objective, but who had mitted inevitable errors. In two words, their mentaries were: the journalist has to put in judgment fabric the facts resorting to the sources, but some facts simply have to be accepted like true immediately. If everything had to be put at issue we would arrive at absurd like the following one: Alberto Ramirez and his thus denominated wife Elisa Sonseca Phons carried out in afternoon of yesterday what could be described like a celebration in his generally denominated home in honor of a woman that says to be called Longina Berrueco Sonseca and to that monly attributes to the being the aunt of previously described like, in agreement with its testimony, lady of the house. The journalists sail between the defamation and the absurd one identifying the objectivity with the facts that they themselves or other journalists observe or who can be verified. The verification supposes to use or to be able to make use of appropriate procedures like for example calling by telephone to the office of the Civil Registry to verify if Alberto Ramirez is indeed the husband of Elisa Sonseca. If the verification is necessary but it cannot obtain itself, the journalists can resort to other strategies. III Besides to verify facts, the four following strategic procedures, exemplified like the formal attributes of the news, allow the journalist to proclaim their objectivity. 1. Presentation of possibilities in conflict. The journalists have to be able to identify the facts, even although the authentic character of some of them is not easily verifiable. For example, an American senator affirms that America goes behind the Soviet Union in the development of a specific type of missile. A reporter certainly cannot verify such affirmation on time to arrive at the closing of his edition, and it is even possible that he never could locate the information precise to value to what extent the made affirmation is or not a fact. The reporter only can determine that the senator affirmed A. The journalists understand that affirmation X said To is a fact, although To it is false. This as much creates problems to the reporter as to the informative anization. In the first place, the consumer of the news which wants is to know if the affirmation To is or not a fact, and a function of the news is to say to him to the consumer of the news which wants and needs to know. Secondly, since the affirmation of the senator cannot be verified, the consumer of the news can blame the reporter and his informative pany of parcialidad (or to favor the senator) if he also does not present/display the alternative opinion. For example, if the senator is democratic and the president is republican, the consumer of the news can accuse the newspaper to favor the democrats, because the only mentioned fact has been that the democratic senator affirms A. The journalist will notice that his capacity to proclaim his objectivity before the future critics is in danger. Although the reporter cannot by itself verify the truth of the affirmation of the senator, can look for which yes can. For example, he can ask the republican minister of defense if the affirmation of the senator is true. If the defense minister affirms that the accusation of the senator is false, the reporter will not be able to prove that the affirmation of the minister is factual. Of all ways he will be able to write that the defense minister affirmed B. When presenting/displaying both claims really, the A of the senator and the B of the defense minister, the journalist will be able to affirm that it is objective, because he presents/displays both sides of history without favoring to a political party or person some. In addition, when presenting/displaying both claims really, the objective journalist leaves supposedly is the consumer of the news that if decides the senator or the minister says the truth. To say that this practical one is a mechanism to maintain the objectivity is problematic. In this simple example we can label this practice saying that it supposes to provide a sufficient number of data to the consumer of