I think this was on TV a while ago, and I missed it. But it was a good compromise choice for us to watch tonight (it was either this or a fight between some lovey dovey thing or a Norweigian film about WW2 – opposites attract thank goodness).

Timely with the Leveson inquiry going on in the UK right now as well. MBH had said on Sunday after reading the papers “Well all the ‘news’ I’ve just read in there I read about last week online”. There’s the crux of the problem with the Newspaper industry. How do you stay relevant in an atmosphere of instant reaction on Twitter and Blogs? I think there’s still a need for serious journalism. The Murdoch Empire may have tarnished the profession in the same way that packaging debt derivatives has tarnished the Banking profession. But there’s still a need for good investigative journalism. It’s finding who are those journalists as well – getting to their voice through the billions of others who want to have or need to have their own say. Investigative and longform journalism is something I will always seek out. At least I heard about ProPublica from that documentary. I don’t think I’d come across them before so I’ll have a look at what they’ve been producing.

Interesting to watch though and definitely would recommend it.

Afterthought: I laugh to myself whenever Bloggers call themselves Journalists – at best Columnists or Opinion Writers but I have seen nothing that comes close to Journalism yet.