I have to agree that there is a certain amount of personal responsibility here. Call me an idealist, but journalism is essentially about telling the story, it shouldn't be about the journalist. This line is often crossed in the desperate scramble to get on air. In saying that, having Programme Edited news at TVNZ, CNN and now Al Jazeera, the New Zealand media is the most brutal, perhaps a symptom of its inward looking nature.

I have to agree that there is a certain amount of personal responsibility here. Call me an idealist, but journalism is essentially about telling the story, it shouldn't be about the journalist. This line is often crossed in the desperate scramble to get on air. In saying that, having Programme Edited news at TVNZ, CNN and now Al Jazeera, the New Zealand media is the most brutal, perhaps a symptom of it's inward looking nature.