«[...] Since the formal end of the war there have been numerous journalistic postmortems on both sides of the Atlantic. Editors have been fired, errant reporters have resigned or been publicly criticized. The BBC was unceremoniously decapitated. The politicians and their unelected helpers remain serenely in place.
«At some level the public recognizes the importance of decent, robust journalism, even if there is currently a drifting away from large swathes of the mainstream media. It’s probably also true that most of the public are a bit more sophisticated than we are in understanding the limits of what we do. Maybe it’s time we took Broder’s advice. Let’s advertise the fact that journalism is a partial, hasty, incomplete and flawed business. The readers know it. They might trust us more, not less, if we owned up.»
Alan Rusbridger (do Guardian) - artigo publicado na NEWSWEEK de 30-5-05 com o título «The Truth About The Truth»
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