So long, the idealist

Pride in quality work, the spirit and energy of a newsroom and the sense of participation in big events made it worth being in journalism

A  few days ago, I was mauled on one of the news channels. I was defending the organisation I work for and the interviewer was uninterested. The exchange was nasty in the way that viewers of such media — and I am no longer among them — will know. A while later, one of the network’s reporters came up to me. “Why did you go on?” the individual asked, and gave me a set of rules of what to not do when given an invitation to the news channels (Rule No 1: never go on live).

Clearly, the individual was concerned