By Raimundo Ortiz
1) If “pure” journalism and “dirty” journalism were to combine and become a business first and foremost wouldn’t that eliminate journalists’ ability to be watchdogs of people in power?
2) Furthering the first question, if stories come to light that would be bad for business yet need to be made public, does a business-driven model have the guts to publish? Will stories that negatively impact business be buried? If this is so then “Church being sublimated into State” means the journalism profession sells its soul for continued relevancy.
3) Expanding on the second question, if this is the case and journalism loses its integrity in the process of remaining financially viable, is the profession really still necessary? If the public is being informed of things only when they’re not damaging for business, then I think there isn’t a point to having journalists at all. They just will become public relations drones with different titles.
