quality journalism'

quality journalism'

The man role is to be an independent monitor of power and the servant of citizens.  But good journalism must also try 'to make sense of the chaotic world around us. It interprets, analyses, and strives to give meaning to all the babbling that's going on.

Nowadays, the democrats (public) potential of popular journalism is seldom denied. Generally speaking, however, journalism is celebrated when it reports, current affairs, but denounced when it focuses on private or emotional matters. It is common knowledge in cultural studies that underneath this split between "popular" journalism and so called "quality" journalism lies a gendered and the ethnocentric concept of "journalistic quality" and, I would add, of citizenship. Partly as a reaction to the widely discussed media presentation of a "wave" of child murder 

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Media inquiry:

 it is the journalism that reports and analyses the institutions of democracy-governments, parliaments, the public service, courts, police and army, academia, business, science, education, media and other key institutions. It is the journalism that investigates and interrogates those institutions and their issues on behalf of society. It is the journalism that fertilises society with ideas, commentary and analysis. And it is journalism that needs to be conducted responsibly because it operates under a tacit public trust.