People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics by Fred Inglis

check on him, he’s a bona fide journalist in good standing.

In seeing people as Citizens rather than Consumers, the true power and role of journalism in society became visible: it is not content for Consumers, but equipment for Citizens. We need great journalism to help us understand the world we live in, and equip us to create a better one.

In seeing people as Citizens rather than Consumers, the true power and role of journalism in society became visible: it is not content for Consumers, but equipment for Citizens. We need great journalism to help us understand the world we live in, and equip us to create a better one.

some of the top investigative reporters in the country are very conscious of the way the system works and play it like a violin, just looking for moments when they can sneak stories through. Some of the best-known of them are even more cynical about the media than I am, actually—but they just find ways to work within the system,

We live in a time where, in the words of social theorist Roberto Unger, we are governed by people who ‘confuse conformism with realism’.6

commercial bravado undermined by political reticence,