What is Journalism for?

According to Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel "The primary purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with the information they need to be free and self-governing."
Journalism is a tool that helps create common ground in a community, it helps build shared knowledge and define who is who and what the goals are. Lately journalists have been resisting the idea of giving journalism a standard definition, they feel that to define the profession is to limit it and that by doing so it violates the spirit of the First Amendment; “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech or the press.” (P. 13)
No matter what definition is given to journalism, there is one fact that stays indisputable. Journalism is intimately tight with democracy, to the point that societies that want to restrain freedom must, in order to do so, hold back the press. From the very beginning of the history of journalism, providing the public with the truth has been the main purpose of the profession. The amount of information that is provided to a society is directly proportional to the freedom this society possesses.
So, what is journalism for?
Journalism is for liberating societies; it is for fulfilling our awareness instincts and most importantly is it for providing the public with nothing but the truth.