The Hutchins’Commission report articulated code of social responsibility for the press to adhere to requiring five basic services:

"(1) a truthful, comprehensive, and intelligent account of the day’s events in a context which gives them meaning;

(2) a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism;

(3) the projection of a representative picture of the constituent groups in the society;

(4) the presentation and clarification of the goals and values of the society;

(5) full access to the day’s intelligence."