{"id":427,"date":"2013-09-30T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T08:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2013-10-27T21:13:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T19:13:43","slug":"creeping-doubts-among-journalisms-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2013-09-30\/creeping-doubts-among-journalisms-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Creeping doubts among journalism&#8217;s elite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LOKsooC9Sv4?rel=0\" height=\"293\" width=\"520\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just stumbled across this Russell Brand interview, broadcast on Ch4 News earlier this year. It does not address anything making headlines then or now. Nonetheless, it feels like a wonderful antidote to what commonly passes for news.<\/p>\n<p>Here is someone with real insight, based on a life once lived in great pain, talking such sense that even a hardened newsman like presenter Jon Snow starts to melt in his presence. There&#8217;s another interview on Youtube with Newsnight&#8217;s Jeremy Paxman, where much the same happens.<\/p>\n<p>Why do these veteran journalists, journalism&#8217;s aristocracy, seek out Brand? And why do they give him so much time &#8211; Snow allows him 15 minutes! &#8211; to explain his worldview?<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, one could have imagined either of them treating him with derision for speaking like a &#8220;new-age prophet&#8221;. Now they seem to have a sneaking regard for him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost as though these consummate &#8220;news professionals&#8221;, after a lifetime at the heart of the industry, have in their later years finally sensed the shallowness, emptiness for what passes for news.<\/p>\n<p>If Brand can win over people like Snow and Paxman, maybe there is hope yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled across this Russell Brand interview, broadcast on Ch4 News earlier this year. It does not address anything making headlines then or now. Nonetheless, it feels like a wonderful antidote to what commonly passes for news. Here is someone with real insight, based on a life once lived in great pain, talking such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-media-criticism","8":"tag-russell-brand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}