A certain set of information, indefinite number of theories, no truth: drafts of the debate on the objectivity newspaper division.

Abstract

Someone believe that before data and information clear and objective is reached by inference, to get inevitable conclusions. There may be objective information, whatever that may mean in journalism or outside. But it is easier to believe that they occur in physics, whose data would be observed by empirical evidence. The movements of the planets are observable. Ptolemy (85-165) revolutionized science to create a mathematical and geometry model to describe these movements. But this text will be shown that Copernicus (1473-1543), 1400 years later, imagined another model based on the same information and the same geometry. Therefore, starting from the same data and information are created two propositions with important differences. Both are acceptable because they worked well for practical purposes. All these information worth satisfactorily because of the theoretical conclusions. By themselves, they are just phrases. If so, good journalism is worth the conclusions, as in cosmology. Report is only a little more than nothing, because there is not inevitable conclusions.