Frank Sjöman in a nutshell

The long time sports journalist Frank Sjöman has a column about the quality of journalism today ut on Yle Areenan, you can listen to it here: http://arenan.yle.fi/audio/901812 (his column is at0.40.30).

He has good points on what makes good journalism and why professional journalism is still needed alltough there are blogs around the internet substituting the need. A journalist is a teatcher, humorist and narrator, making a subject new, interesting, useful for the public.

I agree on most part about what he says, him beeing a sports journalist, a lot of the wrongs he describes happens there and journalistic quality often suffers from obivious things beeing repeated. In journalism in general there tends to be too little of fresh and new information or deeply investigated and largly and thotally thought trough. A part of this problem is again the internet; It gives the opprotunity to have information fast, the same information that some 5 000 000 other people read and spread. And as a journalist you also have to do things fast, it has to be "out there" as soon as possible - the quality suffers.

When we stuble upon good journalism, we now the feeling; After the picture or article there is a sense of enlightment and awakening of self.