I came across an article which has a series going on about quality journalism. This project is from the Crikey editors and they wanted to know how some of the most respected journalist think about "Journalism" and its meanings, and its value to them.
This week Leigh Sales from the ABC's 7:30 news report is featured. I read it word by word, and found that surprisingly, some of her reading habits, like reading Twitter feeds and watching breakfast shows on TV, are quite similar of us ordinary "news consumers".
She admits that there are news pieces which are not particularly outstanding, and good pieces tend to come out from all over the place, rather than coming from a consistent outlet. She said she follows individual reporters instead of specific organisations.
Then as I finish reading the article, there comes the comment thread. So as usual I read through some of them. What I discovered is that some people despised her view and her being one of the featured journalist in the series since some of her political views has made them angry about it. But to be honest, since I don't really understand politics and whatnot, seems like the people are still hating too much about a person. She's come here and contribute about her views on journalism, and didn't speak about her views towards politics and parties, at least as far as this article goes, so I think the commenters all have to settle down and objectively discuss about her ideas and thoughts, not by her political views, since this article is not about politics, but journalism, right?
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