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Dr Nettlefold said "Journalists have traditionally been gate-keepers of information, but in the interactive media environment their role is being expanded to include much-needed guidance to audiences and readers.”
What absolute academic twaddle. Journalists are supposed to report news, something today's crop consistently fails to do because they don't seem to know the difference between "reporting facts", "analysis" and "opinion".