Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Murdoch: Would Serve Powerful If Bloggers, Bloviators Replace Journalists

22 October, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Rupert Murdoch on justifying journalism:

Now, it would certainly serve the interests of the powerful if professional journalists were muted – or replaced as navigators in our society by bloggers and bloviators. Bloggers can have a social role – but that role is very different to that of the professional seeking to uncover facts, however uncomfortable.

I guess he does not consider his own journalists to be "professional" then, since they prop up his own political and business interests on a regular basis…

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