If journalism can't aspire to report news without fear or favour, it will - and should - die

Abandoning the aspiration to deliver a product to the public in the manner it wishes to be served doesn't work in restaurants, why would it work in the news business?

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The Rewrite was chatting over lunch recently with a former newsroom colleague.

Having wisely found a different and more prosperous career, he nevertheless remembered his years in the industry with some affection despite not sharing the same worldview as most of his colleagues, who he recalled leaned heavily to the left.

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