Class Response to the Truth Principle

The first thing we had ever learned in Mr. Miller's Journalism 1 class was the nine principles of journalism; truth, loyalty, verification, independence, watchdog, forum, make the important interesting, inclusiveness, and room for dissent. Some may say that the watchdog principle is most important because journalists have to keep an eye on people with power so they don't do anything horrible behind our backs. However, I believe the truth principle is the most important because if you don't have the truth, what do you have? You have a fictional story. The democracy depends on the truth so I would say the watchdog principle is supportive of the truth principle.