Journalists to blame for the media crisis

The crisis in the media is caused by journalists themselves, writes the daily I Kathimerini: "We ourselves are the ones who have put too much faith in our role as negotiators, and in the strength of the fourth power. We are the ones who strut like stars on television - and who have inherited the money and the attitudes of the stars. ... We are the ones who are spellbound by our own lifestyles and by neo-cynicism. We have imposed the mentality and the ethics of the new media on the old media . We have introduced the tyranny of infotainment into the traditionally serious newspapers. ... And the Internet? Yes, the digital network leaves no end of ruins and bodies in its wake. But the ethical and political disdain shown by the press started long ago."

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