Chet Huntley, NBC news anchor, broadcast these nostrums over ABC Radio on 3 January 1955.

Resolved: To take a walk each morning around a given issue or problem or controversy and report on all the aspects seen or heard — all 360 aspects, if there be that many.

To show some improvement this year in learning how to depreciate my own opinions.

To stop and think at least thirty minutes before offering one of my own opinions in a broadcast.

That if my own opinion must be used, to label it as just opinion with the biggest verbal sign or billboard I know how to make.

To remember, at least once a week, for the next fifty-two weeks, that Providence, unfortunately, did not endow me with complete wisdom or infallibility.

To practice faithfully throughout the coming year to learn how to...