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The time has come for journalism to abandon the myths and stop looking for the fault in itself. The question is one for the public - does it deserve the sacrifices, risks, and expense that go with gathering the news? On its answer journalism's future depends.
Why the public doesn't deserve the news
The idea of a liberal democracy and an informed citizenry is one of journalism's founding myths. In the United States, journalists have long prided themselves on providing the raw material for political life. In Britain that belief has been formally enshrined in public service news broadcasting - one of the biggest social experiments in history using news, debate and current affairs to illuminate the political process and engage the popular imagination. It was a glorious experiment doomed to fail, not because of the inadequacy of journalists or politicians, but because of the public. Informing the public has not led to involvement, nor even to an overwhelming interest in the news programmes that have provided such information.
The time has come for journalism to abandon the myths and stop looking for the fault in itself. The question is one for the public - does it deserve the sacrifices, risks, and expense that go with gathering the news? On its answer journalism's future depends.
Professor Adrian Monck has been Head of Journalism and Publishing at City University since 2005. He was educated at Oxford University and London Business School and went on to be an award-winning broadcast journalist with CBS News, ITN and Sky News.
He helped pioneer undercover reporting for News at Ten, and has covered conflicts in the Middle East and Bosnia. As a senior ITN executive he helped launch, and then run, the ground-breaking Five News service. Until he left Sky News to take up his role at City he had covered nearly every major national and international news event since 1988. His work at Dunblane, in Bosnia, and at Five News has received awards from the Royal Television Society, and on Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall festival prize at the New York International Festival.
He's co-author of Crunch Time (Allen & Unwin, 2004), a guide to current affairs. He is a media commentator and editorial consultant to leading UK and international broadcasters.
In 2005 he was elected President of the Media Society.
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26 April 2006 at 6:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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City University London |
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