DISQUS

sorry David - I should have made it clear that I spent the grewater part of my working life on UK national newspapers. I was being ironic is saying the majority of people view journalism as glamorous, when (most times) it isn't.

It might pay but journalism it ain't. For starters, I assume there must be at least a handful of bright-eyed hopefuls who think the whole business of gathering news a bit glamorous. Their perception of journalism is based largely on Sex and the City, Evelyn Waugh novels and The Daily Planet in Superman. They think the job will be one big free canapé, full of press passes and attractive people shouting “Scoop!” into phones and going to parties at the weekends with Stephen Fry. It would seem unfairly harsh to speculate that for the vast majority of journalists, most days are spent ringing people back to leave messages for people to ring you back because they rang you back and you were in the loo, and being surrounded by people who look mainly like Ian Hislop. So I won’t. The biggest question this sort of 'investigative' journalism raises (by the way isn't all journalism investigative) is people are in danger of being influenced by the person paying the most amount of money. In other words, we lose that vital independence that news reporting brings. Great blog by the way, Nic.