The good years in journalism belong to the past

The golden era of journalism has come to an end, Lluís Bassets concludes commenting on the annual report of the Reporters without Borders organisation: "It's difficult to say which year was the best but 1974 is among the candidates. I'm referring to the life of journalists of course. In that year a couple of young and humble journalists managed to bring down the most powerful man on the planet [Watergate]. In 2009, those who remain and still work do so for newspapers that are in decline, with circulation of their print editions visibly diminishing and dwindling advertising [revenues] with which to balance the accounts; newspapers which know little or nothing about the future of their business, which will inevitably be digital." 

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