> 4. How Delhi journos suffer from delusions of grandeur. More scary is the shrug which answered Manu Joseph's question on why the story on a corporate lobbyist brokering cabinet positions was missed. Cynicism is fine but if it is going to shrug at corruption claiming it is status quo means you need serious rethink on how you are doing your job as a journalist.
There are journalists who don't do scripted interviews. By pooh-poohing this, claiming this is the way political reporting is done is pathetic. Was reading Aaron Bady's piece on Wikileaks. And this paragraph speaks about quite eloquently about the situation regarding journalists: http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9Cto-destroy-this-invisible-government%E2%80%9D/ There is a certain vicious amorality about the Mark Zuckerberg-ian philosophy that all transparency is always and everywhere a good thing, particularly when it’s uttered by the guy who’s busily monetizing your radical transparency. And the way most journalists “expose” secrets as a professional practice — to the extent that they do — is just as narrowly selfish: because they publicize privacy only when there is profit to be made in doing so, they keep their eyes on the valuable muck they are raking, and learn to pledge their future professional existence on a continuing and steady flow of it. In muck they trust.
