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The Numero UNO Itch
Businessworld
|October 1, 2017
ONE OF THE CURSES OF contemporary news media, both television and print, is that craving for the Number One slot.
Visit any news website or watch any television channel or read any newspaper − and you will see that ubiquitous claim of being the numero uno in the domain.
The chase for more eyeballs is driving newsrooms into a phase in which journalistic values increasingly play second fiddle to the commercial zest to be at the top of the chart. Every day seems to mark a new low in professional ethics.
Take the example of a recent incident in which two rival English channels got into fist fighting mode to get the first and exclusive interview with a father whose son had been murdered in a top school.
This story is from the October 1, 2017 edition of Businessworld.
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